If teaching Ancient Greek literature and philosophy at the Charles University in Prague, Sylva Fischerová has been writing poetry since her childhood, and is a major figure of contemporary Czech literature (her last collection of poems is entitled Sestra duše, 2015—and some of her previous poems can be read in English since the publication of the 2010 volume The Swing in the Middle of Chaos. Her collection of new poems was edited by Callypso under the title Stomach of the Soul (2015).
Read her 2010 interview in English about her poetry here.
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