DAVID E. OPRAVA
news
“the still life of rollers” was long-listed for the Fish Poetry Prize
“with blackened lungs” was chosen as a Finalist poem for the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition
“so still” was chosen as a Finalist poem for the Big Issue “Big Scribble” competition
An American-born writer, lecturer, and publisher living and working in the UK.
readings & events
b/c
b/c is D.E. Oprava’s fifth collection of poems and was published by Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press in February 2012. This is a seminal creation whose poems search and stretch our understanding of the human condition and language.
They are poignant, witty, experimental, and in some cases, quantum.
“This is sub-atomic poetry. In the particle accelerator of the mind, specks of knowledge collide with instant perceptions, giving off tiny sparks of short-lived ideas.
Oprava has built the high-speed camera and photographed these illuminating, everyday events.”
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-poet Nicholas Whitehead (referring to y?, the sister book to b/c)
June 14th, 2012
Featured Reading
Merthyr Tydfil
Wales
TBA
August 17,18,19
Featured Reading
with Pen Pastwn
Green Man Festival
“...a writer who "gets" words, what they mean to the eye, and how necessary precision is to the mind of his readers. David Oprava is one of those poets where you read a line and feel as if someone has sucked the breath out of everything you thought you knew about words."
Traci Foust, author of ‘Nowhere Near Normal’ (Simon and Schuster, 2011)