Life is So Close - New Czech Poets

Susie Wild is Parthian’s publishing editor specialising in poetry andfiction; she has been working with the company for nearly 20 years.Editor of New Welsh Review, she is also the author of two poetry collections (Windfalls and Better Houses), the short story collection The Art of Contraception, listed for the Edge Hill Prize, and the novella Arrivals.Jan Zikmund works as an editorial editor, translator, and literary agent. He studied English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Since 2015, he has been a member of the editorial team of the literary magazine B O D Y, which focuses primarily on American, British, and Irish poetry. Between 2018 and 2025, he worked at the Czech Literary Centre, where he was responsible forpromoting Czech literature in the English-speaking world. He is currently an editor in the foreign literature department at Karolinum Press.Stephan Delbos is the author of the poetry chapbook In Memory of Fire (Cape Cod Poetry Review, 2016); and the poetry collections Light Reading (BlazeVOX, 2019); Small Talk (Dos Madres, 2021); and Two Poems (The Literary Salon, 2021). His translations from Czech include Vítězslav Nezval’s TheAbsolute Gravedigger (Twisted Spoon, 2016: recipient of the PEN / Heim Translation Grant) and Woman in the Plural (Twisted Spoon, 2021); and Paris Notebook by poet Tereza Riedlbauchová (Verse Chorus Press, 2020).

This collection includes poetry from: Iryna Zahladko, Jonáš Zbořil, Alžběta Luňáčková, Tim Postovit, Olga Pek, Zuzana Lazarová, LubomírTichý, Ondřej Macl, Natálie Paterová and Alžběta Stančáková.