05.11.09 7:10
Stockholm Poetry Festival 2009 — Three Acts of Love"Something / is bursting the walls of my arteries something / is pounding its way up my throat like a volcano / rising / finally / I understand why I'm a poet," said Shailja Patel, and the hall erupted in cheers. Patel's fearless spoken-word poetry, singing along Ngwatilo's alternatingly sharp and...
21.10.09 10:11
Welcome to Stockholm Poetry Festival 2009 — Three acts of loveAnn Jäderlund, Johannes Anyuru, Jon Fosse and Staffan Söderblom were a few of the poets who joined us at the Royal Dramatic Theatre on November 3rd for this year's Stockholm Poetry Festival. The festival also saw performances from Shailja Patel, poet, playwright, and actress,...
13.10.09 2:20
Ardalan finally in SwedenIn 2007, Parvin Ardalan was awarded the Olof Palme Prize for her tireless work in support of gender equality in Iran, but the authorities didn't let her leave the country to accept her award. Soon afterwards, she and other fellow activists were handed a suspended sentence, leaving them in...
30.09.09 4:30
# 29 — Contemporary Finnish-Swedish Literature (summary)Over the years, Finland has seen a veritable explosion of literature written in Swedish. In Sweden, these works have received little or no attention from critics or from the public. With its latest issue on contemporary art and literature, 00TAL Magazine seeks to break the silence by putting...
30.09.09 3:26
About Stockholm Poetry FestivalStockholm Poetry Festival was founded in 1997 by the Magazine 00TAL. Since then, close to 200 of today's most interesting and innovative poets have visited the festival. Together with musicians, actors, dancers and artists, they have created unique and unforgettable performances at the Royal...
30.04.09 1:20
00TAL presents WALTIC’s public eventsThe world premier for WALTIC - Writers and Literary Translators International Congress took place this year in Stockholm. Between June 29th and July 2nd, thousands of authors and translators from all over the world came to listen to the congress' 50 specially invited speakers. The themes of the...
08.10.08 9:33
Stockholm Poetry Festival 2008Sharp words cannot be swallowed At this point, all of our foreign participants have left Stockholm. But not all of them could go home – Chenjerai Hove, the poet and literature professor from Zimbabwe who opened the festival, will be killed if he does. In the...
30.09.08 4:31
# 28 — Word War (summary)Meet Bruno K. Öijer, the only Swedish poet with rockstar status, in an interview about his most important poems and his hatred of the poetry police in the Arts sections of our major newspapers. Become enraptured by Joy Harjo, one of the world’s foremost Native...
30.09.08 1:54
# 27 — (M)oral Execution (editorial)I am sometimes asked to name the books that changed me. One eye-opener was a novel that took place in a British mining community – far away from the safe conditions of my childhood. The story led to an interest in mines and in narratives about the lives of miners. Another book that gave me new...