Prague hosts poets’ world congress

The 36th World Congress of Poets opens in Prague on Thursday with the programme running until September 20. It is the first time the event has been staged in Prague. The initiative to host the congress stems from the fact that this year will be the 115th anniversary of the birth of Jaroslav Seifert, the only Czech to have won the Nobel Prize for literature. Guests at the congress include Irish poet Bernard O’ Donoghue and Slovak Milan Richter.

Author: Chris Johnstone