Petr Maděra (July 10, 1970,
Ostrov nad Ohří
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) is a
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.
After graduating from a grammar school, he studied landscape engineering at the Agricultural College in
Prague
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. He specialised mainly in
landscape architecture
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,
dendrology
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and
pisciculture
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. After that, he worked as an educator of the blind, and also as a landscape
environmentalist
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for the district authorities in Prague-East. At the end of the 1990s, he took part in editing the Weles magazine, an important platform for the most recent poets. Nowadays he is dealing with applied graphics and works as an
editor
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of a number of
geology
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-oriented magazines and publications. He lives with his wife and two sons in Prague.
Works
His work is characterized by very original poetics as far as both imagery and austere, distinctly polished expression are concerned. These qualities refer to the inspiration by
Vladimír Holan
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Life
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's poetry. Together with the collections of poetry by Bogdan Trojak,
Petr Hruška, Petr Borkovec, Pavel Kolmačka and J. H. Krchovský, Maděra's two highly praised
[Slívová, L.: Druhá polovina 90. let v české poezii 20. století se zaměřením na okruh básníků kolem časopisu Weles. Praha, Univerzita Karlova 2004. (A university thesis)] poetry books, ''Krevel'' and ''Komorní hůrka'' have formed the horizon of recent Czech poetry. Has widely published in the following literary periodicals: Iniciály, Modrý květ, Weles, Host, Tvar, Texty, Sedmá generace etc.
Poetry
* ''Krevel'' (Host, 1997)
* ''Komorní hůrka'' (Host, 2001)
Prose
* ''Černobílé rty'' (Protis, 2007) - a novella about "love in the darkness"
Participation in anthologies
* ''Holan 90''
* ''Almanach Pant''
* ''Cesty šírání''
* ''Přetržená nit''
* ''Skřípavá hudba vrat''
* ''Co si myslí andělíček''
* ''S Tebou sám - Antologie současné české milostné poezie''
* ''Básně pro děti – Jak se učil vítr číst''
* ''Antologie nové české literatury 1995-2004''
* ''Antologie české poezie''
* ''Báseň mého srdce / poezie jako výraz osobnosti / rukopisy, portréty, kréda současných českých básníků''
References and external links
Portal of Czech literature, in Czech and GermanOnline anthology of Czech poetry, in Czech
About the author in Czech press
* Čermáček, P.: Neprohráblými uhlíky slov. Sedmá generace 11, 2001, s. 18.
* Čermáček, P.: Příběhy Petra Maděry. Psí víno 19, 2001, s. 25.
* Fridrich, R.: Syrové maso básní P. Maděry. Pandora 1, 1997, s. 33.
* Harák, I.: Tři z Hosta. Landek 4, 1998, s. 50–51.
* Hrbáč, P. : Mimořádný básník. Tvar 7, 1997, s. 23.
* Jareš, M.: Tři polohy současné české poezie. Tvar 4, 2002, s. 16–17.
* Kotrla, P.: Podařilo se. Tvar 7, 1997, s. 23.
* Kovářík, M.: Petr Maděra: Andělské chlebíčky na dalekou cestu. Tvar 20, 2001, s. 20–21.
* Málková, I.: O nejmladší poezii české II. Ostrava, Scholaforum 1997, s. 12–13.
* Mlejnek, J.: Libovolné efekty. Mladá fronta Dnes 209, 7. 9. 2001, s. 6.
* Motýl, P.: Několik básnických knížek. In Margiana. Host 2, 1998, s. 83–88.
* Staněk, J.: 90. léta v české poezii. Tvar 11, 2000, s. 12–13.
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Czech poets
Czech male poets
Living people
1970 births
People from Ostrov (Karlovy Vary District)