Segovia 2019

For fourteen editions, this activity has combined poetry with the beauty of a city set in unique surroundings. This time, the ancient stones of the Library of the Casa de la Lectura welcome the voices of the poets themselves, who will read their own works and those of their favourite writers. The poet Amalia Iglesias and the journalists and writers Carlos Aganzo, Carlos Hernández-Lahoz and Angélica Tanarro will take part.

Event in Spanish

The winner of the 35th edition of the Loewe Poetry Prize, Cuban Reiniel Pérez Ventura, will read a selection of poems from his collection of poems Las sílabas y el cuerpo, in a conversation with journalist and director of ABC Cultural, Jesús García Calero.

At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of his books at the book stall in Calle Real.

Event in Spanish

A new instalment of Propios y Ajenos (Our Own and Others' Works), a cycle of live poetry readings now in its 15th year as part of Hay Festival Segovia will take place in the Romeral de San Marcos, the private garden of the landscape designer and architect Leandro Silva, whose work included the restoration of the Botanical Gardens of Madrid. José Antonio Municio, an expert on the garden's history, will reveal some of its secrets.

The winner of the 35th LOEWE Poetry Prize, Reiniel Pérez Ventura, will read poems from his collection of poems Las sílabas y el cuerpo. Museologist Julia Casaravilla, poet Carlos Aganzo, UK Ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliott, ambassador of Belgium in Spain, Gerard Cockx, Hay Festivals CEO Julie Finch, writer Elia Barceló, artisan Belén Ferrier, poets Amelia Iglesias, Angélica Tanarro and Carlos Hernández-Lahoz as well as the President of the Hay Festivals Caroline Michel will read their own texts or those of their favourite poets in a stroll through the leafy corners of the Jardín Romeral de San Marcos. The readers will be led by masters of ceremony Cristina Ward and Félix Valdivieso.

Event with readings in Spanish, English and French.

Another session of Propios y Ajenos (Our Own and Others' Works), a cycle of live poetry readings now in its 15th year as part of Hay Festival Segovia will take place in the Romeral de San Marcos, the private garden of the landscape designer and architect Leandro Silva, whose work included the restoration of the Botanical Gardens of Madrid. José Antonio Municio, an expert on the garden's history, will reveal some of its secrets.

Isabelle Berneron, Julia Casaravilla, Hugh Elliott, Maria Antonia Elliott, Julie Finch, Javier Gila, Buccino Grimaldi, Cece Helgesen, Santiago Herrero, Caroline Michel, D Hanspeter Mock and Ainhoa Sánchez will read texts of their own or of their favourite poets in a walk through the corners of the Jardín Romeral de San Marcos. The readers will be joined by master of ceremony Félix Valdivieso.

Readings in Spanish, English, German and French

Four different voices, with a common element: their confidence that poetry is a weapon of the future, capable of restoring the bonds between humankind and nature. Carlos Aganzo, Antonio Colinas, Raquel Lanseros and José María Muñoz Quirós are our poets in the garden. Their words are committed to re-humanising the world in a journey along the labyrinthine paths to hidden corners of the Romeral de San Marcos garden. Poetry in its purest form.

Event with readings in Spanish