It already has 16 years in the market and is the only bookstore in the country specializing in poetry and theater. Valter Hugo Mãe called it a “gourmet bookstore” and, in fact, Poetry is a way of being that bets on its own editions as well as on the poetic arts of several Portuguese authors, English literature, Brazilian poetry and small publishers, representing also some of the most important Portuguese and foreign publishers. “Poetry heals, theater is life,” is the epigraph of this independent bookstore, where love for a cause is a source of perseverance. More than a bookstore, Poetria aims to be a “meeting point, for the exchange of information between people and books and for the dissemination of poetry and theater.”
Bookstore, poetry, theater, books in English, Fernando Pessoa literature
Monday-Friday: 10:00-13:00 / 14:00-19:00. Saturday: 11:00-13:00 / 14:00-19:00
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Address:
Rua das Oliveiras, 72 lj 12
Postal Code:
4050-448
City Zone:
Baixa
Landline Phone:
222023071
Mobile Phone:
928059076
Email:
livraria@poetria.pt
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