Bio
Sven Kretzschmar hails from Germany. His poetry has been published widely in Europe and overseas, among other outlets in Writing Home. The 'New Irish' Poets (Dedalus Press, 2019), Hold Open the Door (UCD Press, 2020), Voices 2021 (Cold River Press, 2021) The Irish Times, and Das Gedicht. He was awarded 2nd place at the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award 2022.
Sven Kretzschmar
Unhear the gales
Salt welters unsettled on the waves,
a bland shoreline all but ducks away. Ducks
on a pond in the hinterland. From the pool
of your seaside holiday abode, you can almost
sense the entirety of it. Impossible
to fill up an ocean, that vast thing sailors call
the Drink. So you keep filling up yourself
with the gargle until you cannot unhear
onshore gales full-throatedly whispering a name.