The space around the words of Katarina Lavmel, in the collection Entourage, varies depending on the mood. You often have to step back – “to see the other shore, to inhale the clouds, to save your soul from ageing”.
In her third volume of poems, the author changes her poetic language, creates a different interpretational key to the poems, observing daily lives and problems. She seeks identity, gets lost in imagination, separating waking from dreaming. It is a clash of internal and external worlds, and their connecting threads: memories, emotions, longing, solitude, the desire for love. Intuition and the senses play an important role here. The poems are bursting with images, sounds, colours and scents which are couched in appropriate settings, creating a specific atmosphere. This sparks our memory, takes us back to a time and place where something was always going on and still is – all you need to know is that “every end is a violated beginning”.
Łucja Dudzińska