Czech Books – poets

Here are links to programmes with and about poets, featured in my biweekly radio series Czech Books between 2003 and 2019.

Authors listed alphabetically (by first name):

Bohdan Blahovec:

Sceptical slammer

Bohuslav Rejnek:

Eternity in a drowned fly

Bronislava Volková:

A ravine halts my speech

Dan Duta:

Canned quotes and dead lovers

Edwin Muir:

An Orcadian poet in Prague

From Karel Čapek to Graham Greene – a Scottish poet’s memories of Prague

Elena Buixaderas:

Poet and physicist

Elizabeth Jane Weston:

An English Bohemian poet of Rudolphine Prague

A Prague poet “infinitely better known than Shakespeare”

Ivan Blatný:

God the linguist teaches us to breathe

A great Czech poet, lost and found

Ivan Jelínek:

A poet in the newsroom

Jan Štolba:

The magic of ordinary things

Jane Kirwan:

In defiance of prepositions

Josef Straka:

A modern-day Prague flaneur

Justin Quinn:

An Irish poet in Prague

Karel Hynek Mácha:

The great Czech romantic poet

Kateřina Rudčenková:

From the Caribbean to Lake Balaton

Lamis Khalilová:

A Czech Palestinian poet

Magor (Ivan Martin Jirous)

Remembering the poetic voice of the underground

Translating the untranslatable

Marie Iljašenko

A European poet

Martin Reiner

A grapefruit poet

Mira Wanek

A legendary Czech songwriter

Stephan Delbos

A poetic guidebook to Prague

Sylva Fischerová

America is a right angle

Irony sips whiskey

Slain crocodiles and rotgut in the Vltava

Tera Fabiánová:

A great Romany poet who sensed the lyrical wealth of the spoken word

Tomáš Míka

Poet, translator, hip-hop performer

Comenius and cucumbers

Věra Chase

A frustrated astronaut

Poetry of stickiness

Vít Janota

A poet of Prague

 

With special thanks to Bernie Higgins and Pavla Jonssonová for their contributions to many of these programmes.