Here you can read and listen to a selection of poems from each of the three phases of the Mużajk project.
The first cycle of mosaics is centred on personal and philosophical expression, exploring themes such as the pleasure and futility of living, love unrequited or fulfilled, and the at once exhilarating and disorienting feeling of variety itself.
The second cycle introduces the concept of the ‘guest’ language sown into the fabric of the five main tongues, and concentrates on poetry of people and place, often meditating on and reacting to the predicaments of particular communities or peoples facing the dangers of rampant capitalism, climate change, or the institutional violation of human rights.
The third cycle moves more into the semiotic, with the ‘guest’ language or script being taken as a symbol for a wider, more universal value or ideal. The poems of this phase particularly examine ancient or endangered tongues.
