poetry(28)

The Lesser Histories

From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own lif...

The Well at Morning

Poet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obskurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands; although he suffered at...

Selected Poems and Graphic Artworks, 1925–1971

Ubírati se

The apt title of this most recent collection of poetry by the classic of Czech poetry, Karel Šiktanc, presents his poems written between ...

Vážná známost

Karel Šiktanc’s collection of poems brings texts from 2003–2007. While in the book in the form of an interview entitled Řeč ne řeč, the p...