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Dunedin City of Literature release

Dunedin City of Literature release

Last week saw a slice of Dunedin editor and writer Emma Neale’s poetry feature on a wall in Krakow, Poland as part ofa collaboration between the successful poetry project eMultipoetry and the UNESCO Cities of Literature. During the first11 days of every month, it will be possible to read poetry from 11 UNESCO Cities of Literature on the wall of the Potocki building. These will be poems from the members of the Creative Cities Network’s literary cities: Dublin, Edinburgh, Iowa City, Krakow, Melbourne, Norwich, Reykjavik, Dunedin, Heidelberg, Prague, and Granada. Everyday a poem from a different city will be presented in Polish and English.

The poetry projection project was started in this spot by the Poemat Foundation in 2002. The project began as part of the “366 poems in 365 days” initiative organized by Michał Zabłocki. In central tourist locations in Krakow and Warsaw, on the facades of two buildings, every day throughout the year, 366 of Zabłocki’s poems were projected. This was a world premiere of an entire volume of poetry presented in a one-of-a-kind fashion: on a wall. From this point forward, poetry has been ever-present on the facade of the building at the corner of the Main Square and Bracka St.

The concept of this project is an ideal fit with the strategy of the UNESCO Cities of Literature, which consider the goal to build and strengthen international cooperation to be highly important. The idea was born during the international conference “Creative Cities and Regions”, which took place in Krakow, October 2012, as part of the Reading Malopolska project. This is the second time this project has been organized on this scale together with all the UNESCO Cities of Literature.

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The organizers of this project are the Krakow Festival Office and the Poemat Foundation Partners of the project: UNESCO Cities of Literature, including Dublin, Edinburgh, Iowa City, Melbourne, Norwich, Reykjavik, Dunedin, Heidelberg, Prague, and Granada.

The poems projected by Dunedin are from the following poets, with Emma Neal first to have been projected as attached:

Emma Neale Hone Tuwhare David Eggleton Janet Frame Vincent O'Sullivan James K Baxter Sue Wootton Brian Turner Charles Brasch

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