Last week I had the pleasure of taking part in the European Poetry Festival 2025.
The Festival is curated by S J Fowler in partnership with several cultural institutes and venues across the UK. Writers from across Europe and the UK are paired and invited to present a new collaborative work in a series of live events.
I was paired with Petra Palkovacsova, who runs Femmesocial Press. Over a couple of weeks we worked on a new piece about bodies, minority languages and how we wear our histories. We performed as part of the Festival’s Norwich leg, at National Centre for Writing alongside a fantastic line-up. While the poem was prepared in advance, we improvised our performance.
I’ve collaborated with several other poets over the years, but this was the most time-constrained collaboration I’ve done, and also the only one where we had to perform the results! It was a fantastic experience and I’m hugely grateful to Petra, Steve, the other poets and our hosts at NCW for the chance to be a part of this fantastic event.
You can find out more about the event and watch the performances on the European Poetry Festival website.
Flo Reynolds 