KAMIL PETERAJ

 

KAMIL PETERAJ (1945) is a native Bratislavan but the subject he has gotten the closest to in this poems is life in nature. He notices even the smallest creatures and with surprising imagery describes their existence. His work can be separated into poetry and texts, where he is the founder of a modern line of thought. Peteraj published his first poems in the journal Slovenské pohľady in 1964 and his first collection Orchard of the Winter Birds (Sad zimných vtákov) appeared the following year.

 

TOMORROW CAN BE TOO LATE

I’m shouting

and I’ll wake up my neighbours

and tell them

shout as well

and wake up your neighbours

and tell those neighbours

to shout, too

and wake their neighbours

because tomorrow can be too late

 

Song from his lyrics: