Poetry is maybe the only stable world we live in. It's not only a shelter and place of admiration/inspiration, it's a space, where words are pioneers, where words are leaders we can trust and rely on. Words are flesh and they create worlds. Words in poetry are stable houses, rocks, going deep, in subconsciousness (as in the time of Breton's manifest - breaking with the old and dig into freedom of thinking and creating) as well as highest form of truth and beauty of the message, reaching warm human passion and going beyond that - into spheres of the galactic NEW - never heard and seen before.
The project is part of the subthemes Disrupted Realities – Poetry and the Politics of Truth, The Poetics of Care – Intimacy, Tenderness, Repair
Author
Petra Bauman
Petra Bauman is a graduate journalist. In 2008, her first poetry book Januar was published in Maribor (Zalozba Pivec), In 2019, she published her second book with poetry titled Paradiž (Zalozba Obzorja). She was included in the final and semi-final selection of the national contest for the best song of the Knight of Poetry. Her poetry has been presented several times in the night show Literary Nocturne on Ars Radio Slovenija. She publishes poetry and short prose in Slovenian literary magazines. Her poetry has been translated into German, English, Croatian and Greek and is also set to music. In 2023, she received the invitation of Kulturvermittlung Graz, for that she spent a month as a writer in residence in Graz. Her poems were published in Lichtungen, a well-known Graz literature magazine. In 2024, her first collection of short stories for adults and her 3rd poetry collection will be published. She received the 1st prize for the best erotic poem of the publishing house Maus l. 2016 for the song entitled 16.
She moderates poetry evenings and public events. She paints images of love, family and transience, and with her language, which she perceives as a translation of an already existing language and pure creation, she seeks new worlds, which does not resist the horror and tragedy of life, at the same time but it paints beauty throughout.
She is also interested in theater and film art, and has performed several times in the theater and on film. She writes poetry and short prose for children and adults. She lives in Maribor.
