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Ján Gavura. 2 minuty.

autorská čtení v Café Fra, Praha úterý 20. února 2018, 19.30Slovenská řadaJán Gavuraúvod Michal Tallo a Petr BorkovecSlovenský básník a literární vědec Ján Gavura se narodil v roce 1975. Působí jako odborný asistent na Filozofické fakultě Prešovské univerzity v Prešově. Zabývá se slovenskou a světovou literaturou 20. století, versologií a poetikou básnického textu. Vydal sbírky Pálenie včel (2001), Každým ránom si (2006), Besa (2012) a Kráľ Hlad (2017). Založil a vydává časopis Vertigo.Čtení je součástí projektu literarnyklub.cz a spoluorganizuje jej OZ literarnyklub.sk, LIC (Literárne informačné centrum) a z veřejných zdrojů akci podpořil Fond na podporu umenia.audio a foto Jitka HanušováAutorská čtení, debaty a jiné literární události v Café Fra. Dramaturgie a produkce Petr Borkovec (tel. 724827499). Pořádá Fra s pod­porou Ministerstva kultury ČR, hlavního města Prahy, paní Hany Michalikové. Partneři Literature Across Fron­tiers (s podporou Programu Kultura EU); Polský institut v Praze; Literárne informačné centrum v Bratislavě; Literarnyklub.sk; Goethe-Institut, Praha; Lyrik Kabinett, Mnichov; Den poezie.

autorská čtení v Café Fra, Praha  úterý 20. února 2018, 19.30 Slovenská řada Ján Gavura úvod Michal Tallo a Petr Borkovec Slovenský básník a literární vědec Ján Gavura se narodil v roce 1975. Působí jako odborný asistent na Filozofické fakultě Prešovské univerzity v Prešově. Zabývá se slovenskou a světovou literaturou 20. století, versologií a poetikou básnického textu. Vydal sbírky Pálenie včel (2001), Každým ránom si (2006), Besa (2012) a Kráľ Hlad (2017). Založil a vydává časopis Vertigo. Čtení je součástí projektu <a href="http://literarnyklub.cz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">literarnyklub.cz</a> a spoluorganizuje jej OZ <a href="http://literarnyklub.sk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">literarnyklub.sk</a>, LIC (Literárne informačné centrum) a z veřejných zdrojů akci podpořil Fond na podporu umenia. audio a foto Jitka Hanušová Autorská čtení, debaty a jiné literární události v Café Fra. Dramaturgie a produkce Petr Borkovec (tel. 724827499). Pořádá Fra s pod­porou Ministerstva kultury ČR, hlavního města Prahy, paní Hany Michalikové. Partneři Literature Across Fron­tiers (s podporou Programu Kultura EU); Polský institut v Praze; Literárne informačné centrum v Bratislavě; <a href="http://Literarnyklub.sk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Literarnyklub.sk</a>; Goethe-Institut, Praha; Lyrik Kabinett, Mnichov; Den poezie.

James Sutherland-Smith

In Gavura’s work the poetic persona has a strong empathy with nature, seeing it as an example of both a non-human otherness and as part of God’s creation. As a theologian Gavura regards nature and humanity as part of a post-lapsarian existence. Gavura’s natural world and the animals which inhabit it are true to themselves and the savagery they express is an aspect of the innocence they retain. His poems draw on everyday feelings of doubt, fear, disillusionment, anger, weakness or even evil thoughts and he tries to bring together these aspects of the contingent world and gain insight. Given his religious sensibility Gavura’s poems frequently incorporate a mythical dimension. This spiritual bedrock in Gavura’s poetry paradoxically opens his poetry to all readers with its acute positioning of human beings, nature and divine aspiration.- James Sutherland SmithJÁN GAVURA is the author of three collections, Burning Bees (Pálenie včiel, 2001), which was awarded the Ivan Krasko Prize for the best debut book in the Slovak language, the second Every Morning You Are (Každým ránom si, 2006) and his most recent collection Besa (2012) received a major prize from the Slovak Literary Fund.JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH lectures in British Cultural Studies in the Institute of English and American Studies at Prešov University. He has published six collections of poetry, the last, Mouth, was published by Shearsman Books (2014). He has translated a number of Slovak poets into English and received the Hviezdoslav Prize in 2003 for his translations.

In Gavura’s work the poetic persona has a strong empathy with nature, seeing it as an example of both a non-human otherness and as part of God’s creation. As a theologian Gavura regards nature and humanity as part of a post-lapsarian existence. Gavura’s natural world and the animals which inhabit it are true to themselves and the savagery they express is an aspect of the innocence they retain. His poems draw on everyday feelings of doubt, fear, disillusionment, anger, weakness or even evil thoughts and he tries to bring together these aspects of the contingent world and gain insight. Given his religious sensibility Gavura’s poems frequently incorporate a mythical dimension. This spiritual bedrock in Gavura’s poetry paradoxically opens his poetry to all readers with its acute positioning of human beings, nature and divine aspiration. - James Sutherland Smith JÁN GAVURA is the author of three collections, Burning Bees (Pálenie včiel, 2001), which was awarded the Ivan Krasko Prize for the best debut book in the Slovak language, the second Every Morning You Are (Každým ránom si, 2006) and his most recent collection Besa (2012) received a major prize from the Slovak Literary Fund. JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH lectures in British Cultural Studies in the Institute of English and American Studies at Prešov University. He has published six collections of poetry, the last, Mouth, was published by Shearsman Books (2014). He has translated a number of Slovak poets into English and received the Hviezdoslav Prize in 2003 for his translations.

Two poems by Ján Gavura, read by the poet and translator James Sutherland-Smith