Days of Poetry & Wine »Grand Poetry Night«
Moderator: Aleš Šteger
Participants
Eli Eliahu (ISR), Carolyn Forché (USA), Anna Gual (ESP), Ivan Hristov (BGR), Kristina Kočan (SVN)
Kristina Kočan (1981, Slovenia), poet and translator, is the author of four collections of poetry: »Migrations« (»Selišča«, 2021), »Stitchwork« (»Šivje«, 2018), »Wheels and Mulberries« (»Kolesa in murve«, 2014) and »Junk« (»Šara«, 2008), which was nominated for the best debut of the year. At the end of 2018, a multimedia book »s|prehod« was published, which includes a selection of her poetry, audio recordings of her set poetry and photographs by Bojan Atanaskovič. In 2019, her short fiction debut »Wildlife« (»Divjad«) was published by Litera. Her poetry has been translated into more than 10 languages and included in numerous international anthologies, including »Europe in Poems: The Versopolis Anthology in Other Words/Druge besede«. Her translation work focuses mainly on American authors. As a lyricist, she works with the band Brest, with whom she has released two acclaimed albums.
Days of Poetry and Wine, one of the most prominent Central European poetry festivals, successfully unites poetry with enology. Every year in the last warm August days the festival hosts over twenty poets from all over the world along with selected domestic winemakers. Korean phenomenon Ko Un, American poet C. D. Wright and Swedish nominee for the Nobel Prize Lars Gustafsson are just some of the 500 prominent names of past festivals. The main emphasis – poetry and wine – is accompanied by a thoughtfully made programme in the field of music, visual, photography, film and other arts for all ages and interests.
