Just in time for the European elections, the European constitution in verse is presented at Passa Porta, Brussel's international house of literature on March 27.
The Brussels Poetry Collective - Geert Van Istendael, Laurence Vielle, Manza, Xavier Queipo, Peter Vermeersch and David Van Reybrouck - kicked off the project. They were later joined by more than 40 other poets.
The Brussels collective, a number of leading European lights such as Antonio Gamoneda (Spain), Franzobel (Austria), Gerrit Komrij (Netherlands) and Mircea Dinescu (Romania) and the 70-strong PolyFolies choir will present a long poem in which European enthusiasm is tempered by a critical attitude, the grand gesture rubs up against poetic intimacy, and seriousness is rhymed with satire.
