Petr Hruška

Nowhere It Is Said

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Host, 2018, 96 pp
9788075776204

“One of the key themes in Hruška’s new collection is finding oneself. Those who inhabit his poems are constantly finding themselves in a typically Hruška-esque state of anxiety in unexpected situations and in various places, suddenly deprived of a sense of stability.”
— Ostravan

“Hruška has rapidly matured in his sensitivity to the ambiguity and uncertainty of today’s world. The poems in this new collection are not the result of a poetic epiphany, as was customary for the poet, but are built up in layers from snippets and glimpses of ordinary life and ‘commonplace’ everyday conflicts, which are then reflected upon using images.”
— Deník N

A collection of poetry where existential images of people today mingle with messages from ancient times.

Poetry

This unsettled, fragmentary collection divided into five sections is an image of the restless, incomplete and disconnected nature of a confused and lost world. The central section is the eponymous seven-part poem filled with scraps of speech, announcements and appeals. The composition of the collection is based on the recurring motif of moving, putting down and lifting objects, as well as on the motifs of everyday endeavours – the painful and laborious effort to force oneself on a little further – which are so characteristic of Hruška’s poetic. Surprisingly, however, there is a new motif in Hruška’s latest collection: an allusion to obscure fragments of ancient clay tablets in an integrated series of nine poems entitled “Hliněná tabulka” (The Clay Tablet). The missing passages in them are destroyed, broken, illegible, fragmentary, unfinished, damagedIt’s just as well that filling in the gaps in stories is second nature to humans and that incompleteness has its appeal.


“One of the key themes in Hruška’s new collection is finding oneself. Those who inhabit his poems are constantly finding themselves in a typically Hruška-esque state of anxiety in unexpected situations and in various places, suddenly deprived of a sense of stability.”
— Ostravan

“Hruška has rapidly matured in his sensitivity to the ambiguity and uncertainty of today’s world. The poems in this new collection are not the result of a poetic epiphany, as was customary for the poet, but are built up in layers from snippets and glimpses of ordinary life and ‘commonplace’ everyday conflicts, which are then reflected upon using images.”
— Deník N

Nikde není řečeno
Host, 2018, 96 pp
9788075776204