The world clock showed the poet the diversity of the faces that move around it: places, historical experiences, events and people.
Poetry
In her new poetry collection, Sylva Fischerová summarises her experience of life and poetry and connects them to the various corners of the globe, to the past and present of these places and the historical events that shaped their form, appearance and future. A personal topography intersects with the suprapersonal, with a history of civilization that is much older. These poetic slices of historical events, together with the spaces where they took place, create a remarkable framework for a collection of poems, but also for memories linked to family, emigration and war…