Petr Hruška (poet)

Petr Hruška lives with his partner Yvetta Ellerová (a singer and composer in the groups Norská trojka, and Complotto) and their three children in Ostrava.

According to him, poetry must "excite, disturb, amaze, surprise, unsettle the reader, demolish the existing aesthetic satisfactions and create new ones.

"[1] Described as a poet of unrest and hidden dangers in everyday life, he confronts readers with a world seemingly familiar, and yet surprising in its reality.

"[3] About Hruška's work, poet Ivan Wernisch wrote: "You manage to write poetry without unavailing things, that is, without lyrical babbling.

[5][6] Blue Diode Press wrote about his poems that they "uncover realities we may have sensed but have never before found as precisely and unsettlingly articulated.

He was the editor of the Collected Works of Jan Balabán and Selected Poems by Ivan Martin Jirous; he also compiled an anthology of 20th-century Czech poetry for a Slovenian edition.