Place: Carinthian Central Library Dr. Franc Sušnik (Ravne na Koroškem) with Jurij Hudolin

The poetry collection Kisses and Words is the debut poetry book by artist, painter, and poet Nina Stopar. In this collection, the poet navigates a palette of intimate emotions, from the dewy flirtations of love to the erotic verbalization of passion. The label women’s poetry would not be misplaced, yet this is a book in which every woman—and perhaps even men—can find themselves. The book is an explosion of sensuality, not only in words, where the poet delicately expresses the hedonism of the senses through refined metaphors, but also in color, as it is enriched with details from the author’s painting opus.