Maciej Robert (1977) – essayist, poet, editor. Director of the House of Literature in Łódź. He has published ten books of poetry (most recently snow and a selection of poems Inventory) and two non-fiction books – Pearls and larks (about film adaptations of Bohumil Hrabal’s prose) and the widely discussed Rivers That Are Not There, an essay and reportage bestseller about various types of doomed to oblivion or non-existed rivers: sewered, underground, dry, disappearing, mythical, tabooed etc.
Reviews
“Superorganizm”
,,Robert is not a poet of one tone or one style in this book. His book is multi-stylistic and polyphonic, even ostentatiously disordered and random, as if the author had included not only finished writings, but also notes, things created on impulse, which could still be worked on or whose presence in the volume could be considered. From this point of view, the title of the whole – “Superorganizm” – can be read in an auto-ironic mode: the poet does not want to be “super” at all, does not strive for perfection, does not overly dedicate much time to the “organization” of what is created. The less effort, the better.” – Wojciech Bonowicz
* Translated from Polish
Interviews
,,Words directed towards a child hold immense power. They weigh on my entire life. The mere potentiality that the worst could have happened doesn’t bring peace.” – Maciej Robert in an interview about “Śnieg”
* Translated from Polish