Petr Hruška: It’s Never Said

Publishers Host have just issued Nikde není řečeno (It’s Never Said), a new poetry collection by Petr Hruška. The Ostrava native works as a literary historian at the Institute of Czech Literature at the Czech Academy of Sciences and as well as poetry (such as Obývací nepokoje/ Living Discomforts, Auta vjíždějí do lodí/ Cars Boarding a Boat, Darmata) also writes prose (the collection Jedna věta/ One Sentence for Revolver Revue, columns for Respekt and the online Bubeník Revolveru). Hruška’s books do not come out frequently and his behaviour occasionally sparks a rumpus, such as most recently when he quit the jury of the State Literature Prize in protest at a deal with the Communists that allowed for the formation of the current Czech government.