Paata Shamugia's poetry - dynamite, capable of blowing up any bridge

Giorgos Rouskas   |   September 2, 2024

"Language. At the border of communication. Customs but also a pass. Bridge. From concept to word and vice versa. But also dynamite, capable of blowing up any bridge. Able to cause storms. In the case of Paata Samugia, by all accounts one of the most important contemporary poets of Georgia, the storm came with his very first book, in 2007 (he was then 24 years old and I mention it because of its importance) … His manner shocks, but his words never cease to have substance."

Fragment from the review by Giorgos Rouskas