2025, calendar, poetry events

performance – book launch annelie david, perdu, amsterdam

On 4 May 2025, the book launch of Onvolledig alfabet (Incomplete Alphabet, Ghent: Poëziecentrum, 2025) by Annelie David takes place. With contributions from, among others, Poëziecentrum, Annelie David, and Rozalie Hirs. The location is Perdu, Kloveniersburgwal 86, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. More information will be announced in the Spring of 2025. […]

2025, calendar, poetry events

performance – exhibition of works by jet nijkamp

On Saturday 12 April 2025 at 15:00 CET, a poetry event takes place in conjunction with the solo exhibition Amsterdam 3hoog achter, featuring drawings by Jet Nijkamp (*1965). During this event, poets Tsead Bruinja, Jos van Hest, Rozalie Hirs, Sanja Percela, and Co Woudsma read from their own works. The […]

2025, calendar, lecture and debate, news, poetry events, radio, livestream, printed media

i speak to the reader with affection – interview by henry sepers, schrijven magazine

In February 2025, the new issue of Schrijven Magazine is released, featuring an interview with Rozalie Hirs titled “I Speak to the Reader with Affection” by Henry Sepers. The article will also be available online. In the interview, Sepers speaks with Hirs about her poetry collections ecologica (2023) and dagtekening […]

2024, calendar, lecture and debate, news, poetry events

feeling-thinking: embodiment and knowledge in the poetry of rozalie hirs and anne carson – helena van praet, university louvain-la-neuve

On Wednesday 11 December 2024, at 15:00 CET, the public defense of the Ph.D.-dissertation by Helena Van Praet, titled Feeling-Thinking: Embodiment and Knowledge in the Poetry of Rozalie Hirs and Anne Carson, will take place. The location is the Sénat académique, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Halles universitaires, Place de l’Université 1, […]

2024, calendar, news, poetry events

poetry performance – boektopia, genk, belgium

->> Nederlands On Saturday afternoon, 23 November 2024, Boektopia goes on tour and celebrates poetry at the Public Library in Genk, Belgium. Rozalie Hirs is one of the guest poets there. Further information will follow after the summer. November Book Month. The book fair Boektopia brings authors with readings, performances […]

2024, calendar, news, poetry events

performance – leiden poetry night, de burcht

On Friday evening, June 21, 2024, midsummer night, Rozalie Hirs is one of the guest poets during the Leidse Poëzienacht (Leiden Poetry Night) in the Burcht, Leiden. She will read from her new collection of dagtekening van liefdesvormen (Querido, 2024). The organization of the Leidse Poëzienacht is in the hands […]

2024, calendar, poetry events

presentation monument for ilse starkenburg

On Friday afternoon, April 19, 2024 at 15:00 CET, a new sculpture by visual artist Timon Hagen is presented at Zoutkeetsplein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The monument in memory of the poet Ilse Starkenburg, contains a selection of her work. In addition, there is an exhibition in the window galleries of […]

2024, calendar, news, poetry events, radio, livestream, printed media

bringing memories to life – review helena van praet, poëziekrant, ghent, belgium

March 28, 2024. The latest issue of the Poëziekrant (Poetry Newspaper) 2/2024 contains, among many other things, Helena Van Praet’s beautiful review, ‘Bringing memories to life through sprinkle speech,’ about the poetry collection dagtekening van liefdesvormen (Querido, 2024) by Rozalie Hirs. Van Praet writes: “Hirs makes use of an impressive […]

2023, calendar, poetry events

poetry reading from ecologica, muze van zuid, amsterdam

On 17 September 2023 at 13:00, Rozalie Hirs performs eight poems, selected from her new collection ecologica (Uitgeverij Vleugels, 2023) at the Muze van Zuid Festival in Amsterdam. The event is at a secret location near Sarphatipark, Amsterdam; we gather at 12:30 CET at Het Groen Gemaal in Sarphatipark (entrance […]

2023, calendar, dutch, poetry books, poetry events

ecologica (2023)

“It is her most daring and possibly most personal collection to date, in the sense that the poet’s voice sounds more pervasively forceful than ever” (Helena Van Praet, Poëziekrant)

“The best-kept secret of Dutch poetry. Rozalie Hirs writes poems like no one else does. Lyrical, musical, intuitive and very precise.” (Joost Baars, De Dolfijn)

“That way the words of Hirs, who is also active as a composer, are like music: the chords flow into one another rhythmically, quite oblivious of the boundaries of a sentence.” (Jeroen Dera, De Standaard)

“Hirs has managed to fashion a very urgent contemporary problem, climate change, into a lyrical stream of words. Doing so, she connects the magic of poetry to the biting irony of protest.” (Helena Van Praet, Poëziekrant)

2022, calendar, music concerts, poetry events, premieres, presentations, radio, livestream, printed media

artemis (2022), ensemble ascolta, donaueschingen, germany – world premiere

During die Donaueschinger Musiktage, on Saturday 15 October 2022 at 11:00 CET, Keren Motseri (soprano) and ensemble ascolta perform the world premiere of artemis (2022), a new work by Rozalie Hirs. The concert at Bartók Saal, Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Stuttgart, Germany, is recorded live for radio broadcast. Ensemble ascolta opens the […]

2022, calendar, poetry events

power to the planet, rindert de groot – publication

On 1 October 2022 the new book power to the planet – de geslaagde revolutie is het begin van de verandering (editors: Rindert de Groot, Farid Tabarki), appears with Studio Zeitgeist, Amsterdam. For more activities about the revolution, please visit the website power to the planet Part of the publication […]

2022, calendar, poetry events

poets at the prinsentuin, groningen, the netherlands

From 8 until 10 July 2022 the poetry festival Dichters in de Prinsentuin takes place at Hortus Botanicus, Haren (near the city of Groningen), The Netherlands. On Saturday 9 July 2022 Rozalie Hirs performs as one of the guest poets this year: From 14:00-14:30 CET Rozalie Hirs performs alongside Tsead […]

2021, calendar, poetry events

infinite sense (2021), nijmegen – book presentation

On Thursday 18 November 2021 from 17:30-19:00 CET Rozalie Hirs presents her new poetry book oneindige zin (infinite sense; Amsterdam: Querido Publishers) at Poëziecentrum Nederland in collaboration with in the independent Roelants Bookshop. The venue is located in the public library of Nijmegen, province of Gelderland, The Netherlands. During the […]

2021, calendar, lecture and debate, music concerts, poetry events, portrait concert, premieres, presentations

dreams of airs (2017-18), athelas sinfonietta, copenhagen, denmark – danish premiere

On Sunday 7 November 2021 at 17:00 CET Athelas Sinfonietta of Copenhagen, Signe Asmussen (voice), and James Sherlock (conductor) present a portrait concert of Rozalie Hirs. The programme evolves around the Danish premiere of Rozalie’s dreams of airs (2017-18), a cycle in which poetry and music play equally important roles. […]

2021, calendar, music concerts, poetry events, portrait concert, premieres, presentations

dreams of airs (2017-18), orgelpark, amsterdam, the netherlands – portrait concert

***POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19*** On Sunday 31 October 2021 at 14:00 CET, the Amsterdam cutting-edge music venue Orgelpark presents a portrait concert of Rozalie Hirs. The performers are Lore Binon (voice), Spectra Ensemble, and Filip Rathé (conductor). The afternoon programme evolves around Rozalie’s dreams of airs (2017-18), a cycle in […]