This Sunday, May 11, Budapest will host a major poetry festival celebrating voices from across Europe and beyond.

Organized by the Belgian literary association La Lyre Émigrée in collaboration with the Hungarian annual gathering Bábel csendje, the event will feature poetry readings, book signings, Q&A sessions, and more.

Poets from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Romania, Latvia, Poland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sudan, Moldova, and Czechia will join nine poets from host nation Hungary. Each reading will be delivered in the poet’s native language, with Hungarian and English translations projected on screen.

"Festivals like this are essential because they bring together diverse cultures - a vital message in our troubled times," says festival organizer Sergey Pantsirev, a Russian poet who has lived in Budapest for over ten years.

"We hope this multilingual event will highlight unity over division and friendship over hatred. And I promise it won't be boring!"

Place: Community of Hungarian Journalists

Address: 1117 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 31, doorbell 7, 3rd floor