Book record
What Now Is Now Is Now
Nóra Ružicková
Translated from Slovak by Ivana Hostova
What Now Is Now Is Now, by Nóra Ružicková, is a Slovak poetry collection from Slovakia, translated by Ivana Hostova, published by Seagull Books in 2025. It is a Slovak collection that makes immediacy, repetition, and temporal pressure into lyric matter. The title insists on the present until it becomes strange, almost sculptural, as though now were a material one could touch. 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
- 9781803095653