Book record
Tidal Events
Maria Ferencuhova
Translated from Slovak by James Sutherland-Smith
Tidal Events, by Maria Ferencuhova, is a Slovak poetry collection from Slovakia, translated by James Sutherland-Smith, published by Shearsman Books in 2018. It is a Slovak collection by Maria Ferencuhova shaped by environmental change, body, water, and social attention. The tide in the title suggests events that arrive not as isolated incidents, but as forces returning with consequence. 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
- 2018
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Slovak
- Country
- Slovakia
- ISBN
- 9781848615748