We invite you to the participatory book launch of Anna Zilahi’s “Gyengédség” on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:00 p.m. at Tranzit Ház (16 Barițiu/Malom Street).

Rather than a standard Q&A session, this event will focus on some of the themes of Zilahi’s poetry with the help of your interactions.
If you’d like, check out and listen to the choral work Missa Echologica by Anna Zilahi and Laura Szári, performed by the Varsányi Szirének, beforehand. (You can listen to it here: https://tinyurl.com/ynsjtu32 )

Some information about the poetry collection and the author:
In her second book of poetry, Anna Zilahi continues to explore the boundaries of human interaction and cognition, as well as their natural and artificial means, possibilities, and blind spots. With empathetic humor and consistent playfulness, she reveals the multifaceted natural system of which humans—despite believing themselves to be its controllers, or even its creators—are, at best, merely a part. Sometimes through allowing the other to move closer, sometimes through the withdrawal of the I, new perspectives are opened up; thus, alongside attention and mourning, the tenderness [Gyengédség] signaled in the title also becomes an important motif of the book. In addition to visual poems, we also encounter musical references in the volume, which, situated between the extremes of the archaic and the postmodern, gazes toward the horizon of an uncertain, frightening, yet at times dazzling future, viewed precisely through the cultural-historical artifacts of our past.

Anna Zilahi is a poet and visual artist. She studied transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her first collection of poems, “a bálna nem motívum”, was published by Magvető Publishing in 2017. She has been a doctoral student at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design since 2023.

We ask that you bring a short text or poem related to the following themes:

providence
beetles
tenderness
the music of the landscape
The texts can be by the author, by another author, by you—from anywhere.

You will ask the author questions; Zsuzsa Selyem will moderate

The book will also be available for purchase at the venue.

Don’t rush home after the event. Let’s chat! We look forward to seeing you.

This event will take place in Hungarian