A book of poems by Kateřina Rudčenková selected from her four poetry books, translated by the editor/translator Alexandra Büchler, who will also write an introduction.

Kateřina Rudčenková’s fourth collection was awarded the Magnesia Litera prize for 2014 in the category of poetry.

On her fourth collection, Walking on Dunes (Fra, 2013):
‘The imagery with which Rudčenková escapes the prose of everyday life, has the power of a magic formula. Her word is full of colours, it comes alive in the excited flesh, restlessly spills like the sea. Among returns to the roots, to the material of her own childhood, and fleeting anticipations of what could happen in the future, the presence pulsates – insecure, temporary, mortal, yet, the only one that is up for grabs. A mix of romanticism, existentialism, absurd drama. Simply great poetry.’ — Radim Kopáč, Týdeník Rozhlas 

On her debut work, the collection Ludwig (Klokočí, 1999):
‘every word emanates cranked-up destruction, and at the same time it is as if this motion slowly shifts whole images into other places and other bodies.’ — Marie Langerová, Lidové noviny