Poetry
The poet J. H. Krchovský (1960) came out of the Czechoslovak underground culture and has close ties to music (he performs in the musical group, Krch-off Band). He gathered his work from the 70s and 80s into a three-hundred-page volume called Básně (1998). His more recent poetry has been presented in the titles Poslední list (2003), Nad jedním světem (2004), and Dvojité dno . Writing in a neo-decadent style and in virtuoso rhymed verse, Krchovský’s chosen topics are love and death, which he presents against a trashy, expressively stylised backdrop. He confronts self-deification with feelings of distress and futility, dissolving the fear of nothingness into a stream of black humour and absurdity. Krchovský belongs to the most distinctive figures of Czech poetry from the last half-century.