The eight poets and two poetesses presented in this anthology are a sample of contemporary Czech poetry in its purest form: in all its generational, thematic and poetic diversity, a prolix panoramic of literary individualities and expressive peculiarities. A collection of heterogeneous attitudes towards life and work, before reality and before poetry. The Nobel Prize for Literature Jaroslav Seifert, the last of the most important Pleiad of Czech poets of all time, left behind a hole that was filled by other poets, some present in this anthology, established with excellent criteria for the Spanish reader make a good image of contemporary Czech poetry. In 2011, a quarter of a century since the death of Seifert was completed. Other poets have taken their place, and the verses of these new poets correspond to the present times: they have overcome the experience of totalitarianism, and in ...read more
