TRANSPOESIE 2025
  • 24/09/2025

TRANSPOESIE 2025”

TRANSPOESIE 2025 Turbulent Times voices the fears but also the hopes of the current generation...

The urgency to change but also the urge to seek cover and question what is. How does contemporary poetry react to the times we are living? Poets from 16 European countries will voice each the current mood in their own language. Expect to be connected with languages from the four corners of the European continent.

Since 2011, TRANSPOESIE has been an annual poetry festival organized by EUNIC Brussels, a cluster of cultural institutions and embassies engaging in cultural relations in Belgium. TRANSPOESIE is an international poetry festival, marking the European Day of Languages, celebrated each year on 26 September. The festival hosts a series of events (readings; debates, public writing sessions) showcasing original poems in their native languages. Curated by Philip Meersman, expert on experimental poetry, immersive audience experience - performance festival curator - artistic PhD researcher AP University College and performance poet working with XR.

Click here for the programme.

Discover the 2025 tabloid here.

  • Embassy of Ireland
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Commission européenne
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union
  • MuntPunt
  • LOFT 58
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • Embassy of Andorra
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • Spain Arts and Culture - Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of Spain in Belgium
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Swedish Institute
  • Embassy of Sweden
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • Yunus Emre Institute