Hviezdoslav's message from 1914 remains just as relevant in 2025.

On 17 and 18 January 2025, the Pavel Orszag Hviezdoslav Theatre in Bratislava premiered a play consisting mainly of Hviezdoslav's Bloody Sonnets in English translation. Audiences and translator John Minahane will find it fascinating that the iconic Slovak poet wrote a powerful anti-war statement shortly after the start of the First World War. In...

"Nation fell upon nation," resounds from the stage the verse of Hviezdoslav's most famous work.