Central European School of Poetry / Program I (CZ)
5. 10. Ostrava • 19.00 • kulturní prostor Peterswald Straße
• hosté Petr Hruška a Jakub Novák
6. 10. Praha • 20.00 • klub Za Školou
• hosté Milan Ohnisko a Sklad by Walda
12. 10. Brno • 19.00 • Skleněná louka — Místogalerie
• hosté Roman Krištof a Miloš Kocman
13. 10. Olomouc • 18.30 • čajovna Kratochvíle
• hosté Miky Marusjak a Vilém Ďoubal
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Poetry as a worn uniform
Dalibor Maňas Kaňas
The most important thing for a poet is simply to encounter that poetry somewhere. To notice it, to let it in. A poet doesn't have to write. To go around like the devil to author readings and poster "I" all over the region of the language. They could learn, they swallow verse like that booze... They can put on earthiness. They love to wear uniforms - even if it's after a corpse. That would be a treat...
But even poets like Klega and Štiler have to be part of something, to master Facebook, to communicate with their chosen environment, to formulate roughly. Writing is a by-product of experience.
Writing is after... Writing is not a quickie in the toilet in the wagon. But it is a seminal discharge.
Then there are judgments like whether such existential writing about the afterlife of the "poeticized self" is believable. Credible - mind you, if misunderstood, it doesn't matter. The reader is irrelevant. Not even if it was Vlado Šimek. On the contrary.
Such poetry. On purpose. Written in pencil on paper, read from a notebook. Splashed with beer. Andrgránd, dude.
But how often poets write about another man's skin. Why do they always get so weirdly distracted there, unlike football fans... They want to keep it balanced when only a fair amount of concentration can do that - and a poet can usually be distracted.
First he falls in love, and then not so much. He likes to talk about himself. He trusts himself. Because things happen without emotion?
First respect, then love...
...you're thirty-three! We don't crucify people in this country anymore! (Štiler)
And that's what we want. To come somewhere shitty, but feel like we're in Zizkov. (Klega)
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Dominik Bárt
for once just for a day
fuck all those names
futures fates addresses imperatives
what if one could what if one should
poems critiques reviews and reflections
stand on a meadow before a forest
from dawn till dusk
just stare at that forest
and then be silent
na celý jeden den_____CZ
vysrat se na všechna jména
soudy osudy oslovení imperativy
co by kdyby co by se mělo
básně kritiky recenze a úvahy
postavit se na louku před les
od rána do večera
jen na ten les civět
a potom o tom mlčet
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Kateřina Koutníková
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Is it really that the world is a better place
when I gobble all these pills
Is it really that the oceans are any cleaner
and fish have less plastic
with each increase of the dose
Is it really that the decent Czechs open their eyes
one after the other
each time the pills’ sheet crackles
Is it really that Andrej gets burnt by the hotdog
if I get another pack
Is it really that some ruins of Rojava
disappear with each tablet I gulp
Is it really that the human narcissuses fade
and people stop taking
when I’ve been off meds for half a year
Is it really that everyone finds their meaning
when I lace Deprex with Lexaurin
Is it really that all people die
when I down it all at once
Is it really that eternal peace arrives
It won’t arrive
but that theatre
will lose another spectator
Jestlipak je svět lepším místem_____CZ
když žeru všechny ty prášky
Jestlipak jsou oceány čistší
a v rybách méně plastu
s každým mým zvýšením dávky
Jestlipak slušní Češi otevírají oči
jeden po druhém
pokaždé když zapraská plato
Jestlipak Andreje provaří párek
když si zajdu pro nové balení
Jestlipak zmizí kus sutin z Rojavy
s každou tabletkou co spolykám
Jestlipak odkvetou lidské narcisy
a lidé přestanou brát
až budu půl roku na medikamentech
Jestlipak každý najde svůj smysl
když k Deprexu nasadím Lexaurin
Jestlipak všichni lidé zemřou
když to do sebe hodím všechno najednou
Jestlipak konečně zavládne mír
Nezavládne
ale to divadlo
zase přijde o divačku
translated by Lucie Řehoříková
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