Welcome to Lyrical Valley

Western Switzerland

A Lyrical Valley in the world

AIMS

  • To gather and promote the poetic strengths of a territory
  • To highlight the need for poetry today
  • To contribute to its influence and its diffusion both in Switzerland and abroad
  • To increase the ways in which it can be adopted
LIVING NETWORK

LIVING NETWORK

Western Switzerland now boasts an extensive poetry organization in the form of a network bringing its energy to the cantons. Some one hundred poetry partners throughout Western Switzerland work together…
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GLOBAL POETRY CRITICISM

GLOBAL POETRY CRITICISM

Building on the second global conference on poetry studies from on 4-7 June, 2019: L'entre-deux lyrique/The Between-ness of the Lyric, the University of Lausanne, together with the International Network for the…
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Digital Lyric

Digital Lyric

We are experiencing a turning point in our relationship to books. More than any other genre, poetry can show how digital technology can be an opportunity for a stronger relationship…
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POETIC WORLD HERITAGE

POETIC WORLD HERITAGE

In June of 2019, the book Le Poème et le territoire invites you to discover the poetic world heritage of Western Switzerland through literary walks. From the Valais to Geneva, from…
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