VERDICT - Xhabir Deralla

BLESOK: launch of the VERDICT poem by XHABIR DERALA

(March 25, 2015, 21:00, MKC Club, Skopje)

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The Cultural Institution Blesok will launch the “Verdict” [orig. Presuda] poem by Xhabir Deralla on March 25, at the MKC Club, beginning 21 h. On this occasion, Xhabir Deralla, the author of the poem, and Miroslav Stojanovic, the author of the cover and the illustrations inside the book, will hold a stage performance. They will perform with a part of their multimedia project called Cryptochromatic.

“Verdict” is the last publishing project of the poet, writer and founder of the Cultural Institution Blesok, Igor Isakovski, who passed away just before the scheduled launch of this book in December. This launch is an event in his honor and a message that his work will continue through Blesok in which the author Isakovski has put enormous efforts and creativity.

“Verdict” is a poetry work of Xhabir Deralla, published by Blesok, as the 35^th title within the edition of “Borea”. It is a poem which the author Deralla was writing for two years (1991-1992), finalized in 2014. The poem is published in a book of 80 pages, illustrated with drawings and pictures by the multimedia artist Miroslav Stojanovic.

Whilst the Cryptochromatic project still remains a secret, a part of it will be revealed to the Skopje audience on March 25 in the MKC Club. At the event, part of the project will be merged with the multimedia project of the tandem Deralla – Stojanovic.

“Verdict of Xhabir Deralla is a powerful poem that reaches the issue of the quest for identity within the individuals, the clash of the individual with the world around, and all that situated in a pre-mythological era in which the protagonists are sacrificing themselves for the sake of the fake goodness of the collective. Bitterly, but this situation we witness today, in ours and in many other societies” – wrote Igor Isakovski, the head of the Cultural Institution Blesok in December, 2014.

Prof. Dr. Katarina Kolozova wrote: “Verdict is probably the most drama and most philosophical poem in Macedonian language I have ever read. Deep erudition in the field of tragic structure of text and metrics is reflected in the almost metric verse of Deralla. After the translations of Mihail Petrushevski, the Macedonian language never sounded so exciting as the lyrics of the Verdict.”

The author is a human rights activist, atheist, multimedia artist, writer, poet, columnist, screenplay writer, publisher, and producer. He is one of the founders of Civil, organization for human rights and freedoms.