Guess Who?* (II)

My first dive into the ocean

A green sea shallow and frozen full of hot breath and a congenital subordination, happily embraced with a blade. their dark-hole eyes suck me up before dusk to deliver me absorbed and ruminated in the morning. every sweet rabbit running for its life perfectly matched with a buzzard on the sky. this is a land of borders like everywhere else but there is an anarchy of holes under these hills a trembling freedom waiting for the whole landscape to collapse and disappear into itself. i walk with my wet socks and think of this video I bought in Switzerland of a fireplace with a lit fire burning for hours, a good remedy for insomniacs and depressives. but I prefer to watch huge Atlantic waves on TV, whales diving while I sink into my sofa. and I don’t even call the sea, the sea, but silk cover or a bouquet of crystal flowers not that massive grinding water machine.

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Marko Pogacar or Katerina Iliopoulou

* "Guess Who" texts are a series of poems which have been written during Crear Workshop, in Scotland. They can be considered as a game among the Wordexpress writers, so that one poet tries to imitate the style, themes and way of thinking of another poet. On the other hand, those poems indicate a significant outcome of poetry translation process (in Crear) during which the writers tried to get into the other's world- and, in fact, a clear sign of that they did it.


News

Word Express writer Ognjen Spahić from Montenegro will be visiting London for events with his UK publisher, Istros Books, from the 15th - 18th of May. See the Istros Books website for more details.

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This year's Prague Book Fair - Svet Knihy - is focusing on literature the Black Sea region. Word Express writers   Ivan Hristov (Bulgaria),  Zaza Koshkadze (Georgia) and  Pelin Özer  (Turkey) will talk about their Balkan literary journey and read their work at the gala evening.  Go to the Literature Across Frontiers website for more details.

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Word Express interviews Georgian poet Zaza Koshkadze, and talks to Owen Martell and Milan Dobricic about translating and publishing Owen's novel into Serbian after meeting on the Word Express journey. All on the Travel Blog.

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