Kyivski Lavry 2012 gathers over 100 poets
May 17 through 21 the Seventh International Poetry Festival, one of the largest in the post-Soviet countries, will take place in KyivOver 100 poets from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Germany, and the US will participate in the festival this year. Among the participants of the festival there will be: Linor Horalyk, Serhii Zhadan, sisters Vronsky, Oleksii Tsvetkov, Bohdan Zadura, Taras Fediuk, Hryhorii Kruzhkov, Marcin Sendecki, Nika Dzhordzhaneli, Yurko Izdryk, Borys Khersonsky, Petro Midianka, Marianna Kiianovska, Andrii Khadanovych, and others.
The organizer of the festival – the magazine of contemporary culture ShO promised extremely rich program. Apart from numerous poetry readings there will be a few roundtable discussions held during the festival, including “Writer and Authority” and “Electronic Book: Savor or Killer?” The poetry readings will often take place in quite an original form, for example during the project “Tatar-Udmurt-Georgian-Baikal poetry through a prism of chacha and kumyshka,” as declared in the program, the visitors will be able to freely taste poetry and national drinks. Rock band Kaliektsia will perform songs based on poems by Dmytro Lazutkin, Yurko Pozniak, Taras Fediuk, Serhii Zhadan, and Halyna Kruk.
The creative duo Korovin and Fahot with their program “Music with Sense” seem like another interesting event of the festival. Poems written by Andrii Korovin and by other poets will be read at the event accompanied by music played by Fahot (Oleksandr Oleksandrov). Poetry lovers will be able to listen to unique recordings of author readings by Vladyslav Khodasevych, Nikolai Gumilev, Benedikt Livshits, Paruyr Sevak, Czeslaw Milosz, Tomas Transtroemer, and other poets within the framework of the audio project “Sounding Literature.”
This year’s festival program will have plenty of music and poetry for all tastes. Admission is traditionally free.
