The poet Jan Šmarčan in Kibla

Thursday 29th May 2008 at 8pm ACE Kibla - the live evening with Jan Šmarčan, a poet of impressive stature and slightly different sensitive looks.
The discussion was moderated by Andrej Rojc.

Šmarčan (born 1979) lives, studies and works in Maribor. His work has been published in magazines SRP, Dialogi, Mentor, Locutio and elsewhere, he also participated in collections Stopi na stol, Beseda v podobi and collections of ŠOUM cultural camps. This time he will take us through the murky streets of his poems celebrating dogs, paedophilia and psychopathy with the presentation of his poetry collection Njej [To Her], which was published by Litera publishing house.

"Jan is, among other things, a poet attracted by topics that are often avoided from afar, wording them like not many people would dare. He is a poet of dark, murdering passion, emptiness in relationships and a revolver at the far end of the rejected gaze, the smell of urine and neglect of the old age, paedophilia, madness, existential and social margins."
(Robert Titan Felix, editor)

"Clamor around the table and in the clamor Jan Šmarčan. Huge, corpulent, having a long beard, he can easily fit into your imagination as the black man from the closet. The primeval fear that entered the world - and remained sitting."
(from the afterword by Gregor Lozar)