Zemlja Zemlja

“Poetry must detonate like a language bomb”, says Marko Pogačar, and indeed his poems, with their unpredictable twists and surprising images, ignite a firework of smaller and larger explosions. In their aftermath, many things will no longer be the same for the reader. In Pogačar’s Glossen gegen Gott a variety of very different voices have their say alongside the author’s, such as the Collector of Sundays, John Carpenter, a handbook for cattle breeding and sport, but also oranges, an anarchist lighter, and, who would have thought, a microwave.