Luís Perdigão
Poet
A poet who inhabits the word as one might occupy a stage: with his whole body. Straddling the line between writing and oral expression, his poetry comes to life the moment it is spoken. A native of Amadora, a city that resonates throughout his journey and imagination, he has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in spoken word poetry in Portugal.
In 2017, he was the National Poetry Slam Champion, a milestone that paved the way for him to bring his poetry to new audiences and stages, participating in festivals, literary gatherings, artistic projects, and collaborations that span languages and geographies.
In 2018, he published *E se o futuro for hoje?* (Self-published). He joined the JAZZOPA project by the Associação Sons da Lusofonia, created the performance *2700 Dias de Ferro* with Nuno Piteira, and participated in events such as: Festival Iminente, Festa do Jazz (CCB), Lisboa Mistura, Poetry Slam World Cup (Paris), Festival 5L, Spoke’n’Word Festival (Warsaw), Noites Modernas, Museum Night Fever (Brussels), KnowHate (Milan, Genk, and Budapest), Um Poema na Vila, Slam Fixe UAI (Brazil), Festival Calceteiros de Letras, Noites com Poemas, Cachupa Poética, Poemacto, Poesia Vadia, and TEDxIST. He is also featured in several anthologies, including *Reconstituição Portuguesa* (Companhia das Letras), a work that critically revisits the 1933 fascist Constitution.
In 2026, he published his second book of poetry, *Sou só som e uma língua em ecdise*, through the publisher Urutau—a title that echoes what his poetry seeks to be: restlessness, body, and sound in constant metamorphosis.
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