The European constitution in verse

With Eugenijus Alisanka, Clare Azzopardi, Faraj Bayrakdar, Petr Borkovec, Jacques Darras, Mircea Dinescu, Franzobel, Antonio Gamoneda, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Chenjerai Hove, Gerrit Komrij, Manza, Kamran Mir Hazar, José Ovejero, Xavier Queipo, Louise Rosengreen, Fabio Scotto, Ales Steger, Jüri Talvet, Geert Van Istendael, David Van Reybrouck, Peter Vermeersch, Laurence Vielle, Torild Wardenaer, Salem Zenia

Europe is getting its constitution! Just in time for the European elections.

The Brussels Poetry Collective - Geert van Istendael, Laurence Vielle, Manza, Xavier Queipo, Peter Vermeersch and David Van Reybrouck - kicked off the project. They were later joined by more than 40 other poets.

The Brussels collective, a number of leading European lights such as Antonio Gamoneda (Spain), Franzobel (Austria), Gerrit Komrij (Netherlands) and Mircea Dinescu (Romania) and the 70-strong PolyFolies choir will present a long poem in which European enthusiasm is tempered by a critical attitude, the grand gesture rubs up against poetic intimacy, and seriousness is rhymed with satire.

Org.: Passa Porta, Flagey, European Movement Belgium, Shahrazad - Stories for Life in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes Bruselas, Österreichisches Kulturforum, Arthis.