Corriere della Sera on Poem Booth

Italy's most prominent newspaper, Corriere della Sera, highlighted the Netherlands' guest-of-honor status at the 2025 Salone Internazionale del Libro in Turin.

Tech-Spirited Poetic Netherlands

The piece, titled "Paesi Bassi poetici dall'anima tech" (Tech-spirited Poetic Netherlands), examines how poets including Babs Gons (Netherlands' Poet Laureate) and Ellen Deckwitz (Amsterdam's Official Poet) are merging conventional verse with modern technological innovations. VOUW's Poem Booth received particular attention, described as "an AI poetry machine that creates poems from pictures."

Democratizing Poetry

Writer Jessica Chia underscored how this installation represents democratizing poetry, enabling broader public participation through technological means. The Poem Booth converts photographs into individualized poems via artificial intelligence — reflecting VOUW's slowtech ethos.

The Discovery of the Netherlands

The article positioned the Netherlands' Turin Book Fair participation within a larger cultural framework: "La scoperta dell'Olanda" (Holland's Discovery), presenting Dutch literary voices to Italian readers through innovative installations including the Poem Booth.