Whitewards

<b>This poetry collection masterfully weaves themes of identity resilience and the search for meaning against the backdrop of an endless winter.</b> <p/> Katarína Kucbelová's <i>whitewards</i> is a haunting and deeply moving sequence of poems that unfolds in a stark snowbound landscape where winter seems endless. Three unnamed figures struggle to find their way through a snow-covered mountainside grappling with uncertainty unspoken fears and the weight of questions they can barely put into words. Framed as a series of brief fragments and longer passages that use a range of narrative and cinematic techniques the collection explores themes of identity survival and the search for meaning in a time of global crisis--whether political environmental or technological. Yet amid the darkness Kucbelová finds light in storytelling itself offering it as a form of solace a way to break through loneliness and a means to endure. The beauty of her images stimulates and inspires acting as an antidote to the bleakness of the world. This stunning collection of poems explores identity survival and the power that storytelling possesses to bring light even to the bleakest landscapes.