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Miriam Drev

Miriam Drev is a poet, novelist, literary translator from English and German, as well as a literary critic and publicist born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2022 her sixth book of poems Ancestral Healing was published, receiving the Veronika Award (Veronikina nagrada) in 2023, for the best Slovenian poetry collection of the year. Her poems have been translated into many languages and are published in several anthologies of Slovene poetry as well as in literary magazines abroad. She lives as an independent writer and translator in Ljubljana.

By Miriam Drev

Two Poems

by Zoran Pevec

Translated by

Miriam Drev

translated from the Slovene by Miriam Drev from BECKETT – MY ADVOCATE 2 where a blind alley ends where you train silence to be voice what is a bird’s twittering without your word how do you appear without water in yourself you’re made of air and light you say body and here you are

Spring 2025

Examples from a block of flats

by Miriam Drev

The old woman who ate cabbage everyday with roasted bread crumbs, a matron in the backyard —most finicky and industrious— makes bobbin-lace. The one next-door lost her daughter, little Eve, who drowned in the Sava. At night another neighbor chats to her man who is no more, by day she knits mittens for winter.

Spring 2018

A Certain Space

by Miriam Drev

At the carousel. Beside me a forlorn seal, sick of circus tricks. Creature of my right hemisphere. She puts her head in my lap. A carousel in the meadow. Seats buckled on ropes twirl round; Some empty. Those lifted by the upward force. Wooden surfaces of chairs bare. A rocket crackles. Someone fires a

Spring 2018

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