Backåkra Poetry & Prose 2025

Once again, the written word spreads across the heathland of Backåkra. Poets and authors such as Majgull Axelsson, Jila Mossaed, Maja Hagerman, Anita Goldman and David Thurfjell, among others, explore burning contemporary issues, this year on the theme 'For this: to listen, see, understand' from Dag Hammarskjöld's Road Signs.

Price: 300 SEK for both days, students free.

Sat 30 Aug
13.00 Susanna Alakoski and Mats Söderlund introduce
13.15 Margot Wallström - In a world between hope and despair
14.30 Majgull Axelsson – Our guest of honor
15.45 Anneli Brännström Öhman - Dinosaur and bluebell. Sara Lidman and the labor of love of peace
17.00 Jila Mossaed - I lived in another country when he died

Sun 31 Aug
11.00 David Thurfjell - Man animates the world.
12.15 Anita Goldman - The Geography of Wild Hope
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Skurups Folk High School students read
15.15 Maja Hagerman - Memory, Forgetting and St. Botvid