As was planned and announced in the press, events for Irish poets (5/9 in Zappeion and 6/9 in Athens Center) took place during the Book Festival in Zappeion Megaron (31/8-15/9/2019 in collaboration with the Irish Embassy), for Swedish poets (10/9 in Zappeion Megaron and 11/9 in S:t Paulusgården in collaboration with Swedish Institute of Athens), for French poets (14/9 in Zappeion Megaron) and for Spanish/Galician poets (9/10 in Public Syntagma). On the whole, 15 poets arrived and were hosted in Athens. The events took place in collaboration with the Culture Ireland, the Swedish Arts Council, French Institute of Athens, Institute Cervantes and Xunta de Galicia, and with the support of OSDEL as well.
For photos (Stratos Prousalis) see here and here.
Finally, out of schedule, took place on Tuesday, September 24, 2019, at the Slovak Embassy in Athens, the presentation of the ‘‘Anthology of Young Slovak Poets’’, in the presence of the poet Eva Tomkuliakova who had also participated in the same event which took place in Thessaloniki in May, and Stratos Prousalis from Vakxikon Publications. Below you can see sample of photos: