The Poetry Off the Page team is excited to invite you to VERSE ON, an evening of international poetry, on 13th June 2025, 18:30 at Literaturhaus Wien.
Part of the Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe conference, the event features 4 phenomenal international poets: Shantanu Anand (India), liz breslin (New Zealand), Raphael D’Abdon (South Africa) and Katharina Wenty (Austria) as headliners, as well as an open mic!
You can register for the event here: tinyurl.com/verseon (Or scan the QR code in the poster attached below)
About the HEADLINERS:
Shantanu Anand is an Indian poet and co-founder of Airplane Poetry Movement. He has been part of the core curation team of Spoken Fest, Asia’s largest spoken word and storytelling festival, for its editions in 2020, 2022, and 2024. In 2019, he co-created the poetry anthology, A Letter, A Poem, A Home, and was included in the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list for his contributions to performance arts.
Raphael d’Abdon is the author of four poetry collections, sunnyside nightwalk (2013), salt water (2016), the bitter herb(2018) and Poesie scelte – Selected poems (2010 – 2020)(2021). He is South Africa’s representative of Africa Haiku Network and poetry editor of BKO Poetry & Literature Magazine.
liz breslin is a queer, tangata Tiriti writer, editor, performer and facilitator of Polish, Irish and English descent based in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. Their third full length poem collection, show you’re working out, will be published by Dead Bird Books in August 2025.
With performances in over 20 countries, Katharina Wenty is one of the most internationally successful Austrian slam poets. As a filmmaker, she has already been part of several festivals and a winner of the Media Literacy Award, the Zeitimpuls Short Film Award and many more. Since 2018, Katharina has been organizing/moderating events at home and abroad, including the European Poetry Slam Championship in Graz 2026.
We hope to see you there! To know more about the conference, visit https://popconf2025.univie.ac.at/.
