WHITEWARDS, A long poem by Katarína Kucbelová

A long poem by Katarína Kucbelová

(jointly translated from the Slovak K bielej)

Seagull Books, Calcutta, October 2025, ISBN 978-1803095639

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“Kucbelová delivers her bleak vision through vivid, haunting, cinematic images, and the Sherwoods render her unique voice into equally majestic and melodic English.” – Zuzana Slobodová, Times Literary Supplement, October  31, 2025

“Leaving a permanent mark—contamination, desecration, irreversible transformation—these motifs appear throughout the book, especially in relation to ecological concerns. The poem-composition depicts the world losing shape, menaced by a vague threat. Ecological collapse unfolds as if outside human awareness; people drift through simulated life, as if numbed and cradled into lethargy.” From the introduction by Viliam Nádaskay