A grand way to kick off the winter festival for the European Poetry Festival 2026, celebrating Swedish poetry at Hundred Years Gallery. Jorgen Gassilewski and Anna Hallberg came over to be joined by 14 other poets all presenting new works in pairs.

It was the kind of event that takes a lot of time and experience to do easily, but it felt very easy, as it was uniformly hospitable and funny and friendly while being really ranged in its styles and plays and poems and works. It balanced between the literary and well worked to the improvised and chaotic. All videos and some photos are up here https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/sweden26