"this poem has the voice of a saxophone kissed by a hammer"

For the second session of our new series of Listening Sessions, we invite Mátyás Dunajcsik for an evening of poetry and jazz, voice and vinyl. We'll be listening to readings of his poetry in dialogue with John Coltrane’s transcendental album “A Love Supreme” (1964) on vinyl.
Coltrane's album has an ever-present urgency that resounds from the Civil Rights era and Black Arts Movement through our polyphonic present. Alongside the record, Mátyás reads from the English translation of his book “Verlorene Gedichte” / "Lost Poems", and a discussion on the legacy of Coltrane on poetry and jazz.
Mátyás Dunajcsik is a Berlin based multilingual queer punk poet and performer, using English and German since he left his native Hungary a decade ago. His essay “PUNK” was published in 2024 by Verlagshaus Berlin in the Edition Poeticon series. His first poetry book written in German, “Verlorene Gedichte,” was published by Parasitenpresse in 2023. He is the recipient of numerous literature stipends, most recently from the German Literature Fund.

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