Books, poetry and environmental conservation take center stage on Corfu

The Corfu Literary Festival 2025 is successful afloat swing, celebrating literature, conservation, and Greek civilization against the backdrop of the island’s iconic Mediterranean scenery.

On Friday, the festival opens astatine the Corfu Public Library with Derek Johns discussing “Watercolourists connected Corfu”, followed by Lady Marina Marks successful speech with historiographer David Olusoga astir her publication The Uses of Oppression. Friday evening’s events see ‘Darkness and Light’, a treatment with writers Dan Richards and Julian Hoffman astir nocturnal beingness and idiosyncratic journeys, and ‘Defending the Planet connected the Margins’, a sheet treatment astir ecological extortion crossed borders.

On Saturday, there will beryllium a affable cricket lucifer successful Corfu Town, with festival guests including Simon Armitage, Peter Fiennes and David Olusoga, who will beryllium joining the event. That evening, the Nikos Louvros Lecture will analyse the diminution of humanities education, followed by poesy readings from Armitage and A. E. Stallings, Professor of Poetry astatine the University of Oxford.

The festival closes connected Sunday with ‘Lyrics arsenic Poetry’, celebrating the poetic powerfulness of τραγούδι with New York vocalist Craig Pomranz and section pianist George Koroumpis Sawadram, followed by a festival wind-down supper.

For much accusation connected the festival and to acquisition lawsuit tickets, you tin visit corfuliteraryfestival.com.