Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:01:12 +0200https://english.radio.cz/god-linguist-teaches-us-breathe-8555130© 2026 Radio Prague International“Bixley Remedial School” is one of the most remarkable collections of Czech poetry from the second half of the twentieth century. At the time it was first published in the early 1980s, its author Ivan Blatný was a long-term patient in a psychiatric hospital in England. A new edition of the collection reminds us that Blatný’s poetry is far from being the mere scribbling of a madman. David Vaughan reports. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/blatny_ivan1.jpg?timestamp=1591283027 https://english.radio.cz/god-linguist-teaches-us-breathe-8555130 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9