Lunulae (2026)

In his second poetry collection, Pavel Nmec explores the pale crescents on our fingernails, which reveal something about us even when we remain silent, most eloquently about our heart and blood. With the persistence and searching spirit of an alchemist, he uncovers the sensitivity and fragility of claws, the human predators sole predatory equipment, set against the spines, tusks and fangs of language. Play, wit, trickery and striving, intention, spontaneity and free fragmentation truthfully capture the process of birth, illness and death, reflecting the fact that an entirely different crescent moon shines from every fingernail. The contents are in Czech.