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History
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 2nd Meeting (28 - 31 May 1995)
The Second International Meeting of Poets took place in May
1995, again bringing together some of the best known voices
of contemporary poetry from all over the world. About eighty
representatives of nineteen countries of Europe, Africa, North
America, South America, and Asia came to Portugal for the
occasion.
The
Meetings continued to hold the Whitmanian democratic ideal
as their inspiration, both in the attempt to reach the greatest
possible audience and in the will to democratize the canon,
by placing consecrated names such as Alberto
Pimenta
(Portugal), Ana
Hatherly
(Portugal), Bernard
Heidsiek
(France), Bob
Perelman
(USA), Cees
Nooteboom
(Holland), Eugen
Gomringer
(Switzerland), Haroldo
de Campos
(Brazil), or Nicole
Brossard
(Canada) side by side with some less well-known young poets.
In 1995, an effort was made to bring together the greatest
possible number of poets from Portuguese-speaking countries
and regions. Representatives from Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau,
Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe were present
in the Second Meeting.
Besides several poetry readings, debates and performances,
the Second Meeting included a Book Fair and three exhibitions:
Poetry Book Exhibition (British Council); Painting and Poetry
"Estruturas de Construção" and "Stumbling Words" (Manuel
Portela
and John
Havelda).
This event was also marked by the launching of a collection
of Contemporary Poetry with books kindly offered by our Guest
Poets.
A bilingual volume, edited by Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa
Santos, was published with the title Poesia
do Mundo
(Porto: Afrontamento, 1995).
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