THE RHYTHM OF THE VERSE, THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Between two breaths there exists a pause, between two feet in a verse there exists a caesura like the silence between two heartbeats. Were it not for the pause, all that was before it and all that would come after it would merge and flow unobserved alongside time. Were it not for the rhythm, speech wouldn’t give rise to verse, and walk wouldn’t give rise to dance. If the rhythm of life is the unconditional continuation of the heartbeat, and the rhythm of the verse is a sensory game with repeating metrical feet, then the Struga Poetry Evenings are the rhythm of poetry and its continual reemergence here, always and forever.

Video Production: ZOOTROP Studio
Graphic Design of Poster: Enkel Dika
Music: PIJAN SLAVEJ
Author of the text: Jakov Poposki

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