Row

...like pleasurably browsing... The reader is perplexed and excited by Salamun's personae. Salamun's surrealistic worlds are often inhabited by real history...

When entering a Tomaz Salamun poem don't reach for the handrail of narrative or grope for the light-switch of 'meaning'. These are instinctive, sensory poems, poems of great power and surprise, appealing to the open mind and the trustful reader. Each phrase no matter how unexpected or even surreal has a deliberate force and a convincing relevance. Salamun is mysterious and enigmatic and he is a risk taker. With wit and wonder, and always with surprise, he renews our familiar world again and again and again.

...it is impossible to deny the inventiveness and energy that he is still capable of drawing on.

...much more interesting. There are poems and images which surprise and delight. This is imagery pushed into new places...

...I have rarely read a group of poems as incomprehensible as these: they row with me...