• Publisher: ŠKUC
• Author: Aljaž Koprivnikar
• Original title: Anatomija

The author’s physical fragmentation across different European countries is the start- ing point for the poetry book Anatomy. The places, cities and landscapes outlined in the collection are not merely geographical concepts, but intertwined points of iden- tification for the poetic subject. Inventories of the author’s intimate experience and personal search for his own identity through poetry becomes a universal human ex- perience, in which the poet proves to be a skilful weaver of complex life stories and intimate encounters, all through the prism of modern historical reality, the uncertain and turbulent times of neoliberal Europe at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. – Domen Slovinič (from the book’s flap copy)

In the last decade, I have already seen the odd proclamation of a poetry collection of the generation, supposedly the ultimate reference point of poetry of the poetry of its millennials. But none of the above, regardless of its relevance, managed to address me as such. When reading Anatomy, I finally have the feeling that I have in my hands a collection that actually touches that part of the generation with which I myself had the most social ties. Therefore, whenever I try to better understand this part of my youth, which was once considered the most vital part of life, I will probably reach for this book or offer it to anyone who is interested in how the world was being experienced by our social group, without having to resort to the pompous phrase “voice of the generation”, even though I have it at the tip of my tongue. – Muanis Sin anović (Vrabec Anarhist)

About the author

Aljaž Koprivnikar

Aljaž Koprivnikar, poet, literary critic, editor and festival producer. His poetic debut Ανατομία was published in 2019 by the Greek publishing house Vakxikon, the same year Anatomija was published by the Centre for Slovenian Literature. A Czech translation is currently being prepared by the publishing house Viriditas. His poems have been published in various literary magazines and anthologies, and translated into English, Czech, Greek, Croatian, German, Macedonian, Portuguese, Serbian and Spanish. He lives in several cities: Ljubljana, Berlin, Prague and Lisbon – in the first he organizes the International Critics’ Symposium The Art of Criticism, the World Literatures – Fabula Festival and the Slovenian Book Days; in the second he is often working with literary house Lettrétage; in the third he is one of the program directors of the international literary festival Prague Microfestival; in the latter he often teaches at the Faculdade de Letras. He is currently preparing a new collection of poems for the Greek literary market and its Slovenian adaptation.