In Defense of Small Things

The collection In Defence of Small Things sets out to discover the world of familiar yet often overlooked details. The reader encounters the poet’s fascination with everyday, seemingly insignificant things, and an effort to grasp their deeper significance for each of us. Every return to nature, intimacy, and motherhood in these poems of the home is tinged with a quiet sense of threat, arriving not only from the world outside but, often unexpectedly, from within. The central message of the collection, however, lies in attending to things as they exist within the vibrant cycle of the world and sustaining an ongoing dialogue with them.

Published in 2025 by Host Publishers in the Czech Republic.
92 pages / 14,2 x 17,5 cm

Also by Jitka Bret Srbová