Book record
Minotaur’s Daughter
Eva Luka
Translated from Slovak by James Sutherland-Smith
Minotaur's Daughter, by Eva Luka, is a Slovak poetry collection from Slovakia, translated by James Sutherland-Smith, published by Seagull Books in 2025. It is a Slovak collection where myth, inheritance, labyrinth, and feminine identity gather around a powerful figure. The daughter of the Minotaur is already a poem before the poems begin: kinship with the monster, and also a way out. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Slovakia. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.
- Published
- 2025
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Language
- Slovak
- Country
- Slovakia
- ISBN
- 9781803095059