The poems of Daniel Soukup seem to belong to another time: their form possesses a classicist solemnity. However, something unsettling is emerging here; it is already rising, already collapsing, already cracking, already scattering. In the glimpses, intersecting lines collide, boundaries and edges clash, emptiness bubbles with contents, the lost seeks another miraculous planet, a new stability of things. Daniel Soukup (1976) studied English, German, and Czech literature at Charles University. From 2002 to 2014, he taught at the Literary Academy of Josef Škvorecký, and since 2014, he has been working at Charles University. He published a poetry collection titled 'View into the Rock' (2007), a scholarly monograph 'Gypsies' and the Czech Village (2013), and translations of poems by Wallace Stevens ('The Scholar of the Single Candle', 2008) and Seamus Heaney ('Human Chain', 2018), as well as books by J. H. Newman ('The Risks of Faith', 2011 and 'The Idea of a University', 2014) and Timothy Radcliffe ('Why Be a Christian?', 2017).
