I was asked by the brilliant Ausra Kaziliunaite to curate a European Camarade during the Paviljonas Book Festival in Vilnius this past November 30th 2019.
It was mostly visiting poets and Lithuanian poets, and the latter, those of the contemporary Lithuanian scene, are amazing. It’s a cracking time for interesting poetry in the Baltic in general, but especially in Vilnius. And friends from Russia, Latvia, Romania came too.
All the videos are here, worth checking out https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/vilnius
I had the chance to collaborate with poet music monster Zygimantas Kurdika. I met him in London performing a few years back and his work is completely unique and brilliant. We improv’d hard and just had 36 questions for each other, trying to expose our psychologies to the people foolish enough to attend.