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POETRY
Shadi Angelina Bazeghi is a Danish-Iranian poet and translator. She made her debut with Vingeslag (2015), followed by Flowmatic (2020), a long poem exploring language, technology, memory, war and repression. Her poetry moves between the intimate and the political, combining experimental forms with scientific and philosophical references. Bazeghi’s work is concerned with violence and with language as both material and force: what it can reveal, conceal and create between people. She has translated works by, among others, Sadegh Hedayat and Forugh Farrokhzad into Danish.
Shadi will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Friday, Sep 11, from 16.00-16.20.
Photo: Jakob Dall
FRIDAY, 16:00-16:20
FRIDAY, 16:20-16:40
Christina Hesselholdt, born in 1962, has published 18 works of prose since her debut in 1991 with the novel Køkkenet, gravkammeret & landskabet. Her novel Passion i voks will be published by Vinter Forlag in May.
In 2007, she was awarded a lifelong grant from the Danish Arts Foundation. In 2018, she received the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy and has also received the Jytte Borberg Prize, the Beatrice Prize, the Critics’ Prize, and the DR Novel Prize.
Her prose works have been translated into several languages.
Christina will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Friday, Sep 11, from 16.20-16.40.
FRIDAY, 16:40-17:00
Jens Kæmpe is a danish poet born in 1993, known for collections like Kunstens regler (2019) and Brutus (2024).
Jens will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Friday, Sep 11, from 16.40-17.00.
Photo: Fie Martens Ljungmann
FRIDAY, 17:30-17:50
Nath Krause (b. 1994) is a Danish author. Their first book Logan i Aokigahara was published in 2023, followed by Trilogi in 2025, which was awarded the Montana Prize for Literature and the Michael Strunge Prize.
Nath will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Friday, Sep 11, from 17.30-17.50.
Photo: Gry Stokkendahl Dalgas
FRIDAY, 17:50-18:10
Born 1960 Literary debut in 1984 with the poetry collection Hvæsende på mit øjekast (Hissing at my glance). He has since produced a number of volumes of poetry. Boberg has travelled widely – in the United States, India, Italy, Spain, Central and Northern Europe, and South America – and written four travel books: among others Americas 1999). He lived in Spain for four years and in Peru for 14 years, returning to Denmark in the year of 2004. In 2019 he published Africana, a travel novel. 2024 the novel Insula. In 2026 he published Abens maske, poems.
Thomas will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Friday, Sep 11, from 17.50-18.10.
Fie Martens Ljungmann is a poet, playwright, editor and actor. Her texts work through affect and explore the various forms of losing control. They engage with the difficult and the forgotten within a subjective context. The writing seeks a connection to a kind of collective unconscious “place” — a mysterious realm, perhaps a place beyond. Additionally, her work investigates the underlying performative layers that may be embedded in a writing practice, as well as the fault line between healthy and ill modes of existence.
Fie will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Friday, Sep 11, from 18.10-18.30.
Photo: Fine Glindvad
FRIDAY, 18:10-18:30
Amalie Langballe (1992) is the author of two novels, forsvindingsnumre (2019) and elskende (2025) — both are the recipients of different literary awards. Besides writing books she works at the newspaper Weekendavisen as a theater critique. She lives in Vejby, north of Copenhagen.
Amalie will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Saturday, Sep 12, from 16.00-16.20.
Photo: Philip Peng Rosenthal
SATURDAY, 16:00-16:20
René Jean Jensen, born 1971. Writer and translator. Latest publication, the novel "Den anden, den tredje, mig" (Gyldendal, 2026). Two books of poetry, "Jeg har planlagt at dagdrømme" (2010) and "I nat bar jeg Caligula" (2019). Translations of, among others, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, Ernst Jünger, Yoko Tawada, Peter Waterhouse, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Ariane Koch.
René will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Saturday, Sep 12, from 16.20-16.40.
Photo: Sara Galbiati
SATURDAY, 16:20-16:40
Alexandra Moltke is a playwright and writer. She has written lots of plays and four books: Falder for din hånd (playbook), Stykker om magt (drama), Animal (novel) and Beate & Branden (novel for adolescence), This september her fifth book is coming: her sci-fi-novel PARADISI GLORIA.
Alexandra also works with rituals, mostly uninvited in public or corporate spaces with the attempt to create a more fair and beautiful society.
In 2023 she received the Danish Arts Foundations three year grant.
Alexandra will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Saturday, Sep 12, from 16.40--17.00.
Photo: Sofie Amalie Klougart
SATURDAY, 16:40-17:00
SATURDAY, 17:30-17:50
Luka Holmegaard (1990) has published two novels, the essay hybrid Look (2020), and most recently the poetry collection The Ocean in Your Mouth (Dk 2023, eng 2026). He has won the Prisma literary award, been awarded a two year working grant from the Velux Foundation, and recieved several other prizes and nominations. His work is translated to German, English and Swedish.
Luka will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Saturday, Sep 12, from 17.30-17.50.
Photo: Camilla Lohmann
SATURDAY, 17:50-18:10
Adam Drewes (born 1974) is an author and poet. He has published several works, most recently the montage novel Christian Eriksens fald (2024), composed of 591 media quotes about the footballer's cardiac arrest during UEFA Euro 2020. In 2021, he published the long poem Kim Larsen?, a book consisting entirely of questions that uses the late singer-songwriter as a lens through which to explore contemporary notions of community. His new poetry collection, Vi var guddommelige, is composed entirely of vacation rental reviews and will be published in October 2026.
Adam will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Saturday, Sep 12, from 17.50-18.10.
Photo: Rune Pedersen
SATURDAY, 18:10-18:30
Glenn Christian (b. 1976) is a Danish writer and educator who grew up in Esbjerg.
He graduated from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing (Forfatterskolen) in 2007 and made his debut the following year with Det Hjemlige. Writing from within a fractured universe,
Christian explores weird entanglements between bodies and landscapes. Selected works include Mudret sol, Taarn and Kiddicraft. His latest book is Jerne (2026).
Glenn will be reading at the free IMPACT POETRY event on Saturday, Sep 12, from 18.10-18.30.
THE POETRY PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED BY STATENS KUNSTFOND
