Whitewards by Katarína Kucbelová and translated by Peter Sherwood, Viliam Nádaskay

This is poetry from Slovakia.

Whitewards by Katarína Kucbelová translated by Peter Sherwood, Viliam Nádaskay is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in Slovak. This was published in 2025.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781803095639E12.

Whitewards, by Katarína Kucbelová, is a Slovak poetry collection from Slovakia, translated by Peter Sherwood, Viliam Nádaskay, published by Seagull Books in 2025. It is a Slovak collection moving through whiteness, northern quiet, and the charged space between landscape and self. Kucbelová’s title suggests motion toward blankness, but the poems can be read as an argument that blankness is never empty. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Slovakia; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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