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Updated: March 5, 2021, 9:42 am © SYSTEM StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, is set to go live online this weekend. The annual St Andrews-based celebration of poetry, which is due to open on Saturday, will take the form of a hybrid, digital festival for the first time due to Covid-19, with dozens of local, national and international poets taking part in the festival over nine days StAnza 2021 will open with a first night extravaganza showcasing a selection of poems, film, art a...

Bela Chekurishvili. Scotland’s international poetry festival will mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union at its online events next month. StAnza’s 2021 programme will focus on languages from countries of the former Eastern Bloc under the title Beyond The Iron Curtain. Poets and events dedicated to languages of Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and North Macedonia will be featured. The festival will also have a selection o...