Poetry is back, baby! Europe's poetry scene is thriving - but it never left in the first place
Every so often, the poetry community is solicited by eager journalists who want to know whether poetry as an art form is making a comeback. But if you ask Steven J Fowler, an English poet and founder of the European Poetry Festival in the UK, the question is moot. “There's an article written every six months by a journalist saying poetry is coming back,” Stephen J Fowler tells Euronews Culture. “But there's no context about where it went.” For Fowler, poetry is an endless recurrence, making its way up and down and back again. But he will allow that European poetry is currently experiencing an ...