Poetry Reading

Diana Radovan
Seasons of Change

Saturday, 31 January 2026
19:00

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This event is free. No registration necessary.

Diana Radovan, author of the hybrid memoir Our Voices and the essay collection Dincolo, lives and writes in the spaces in-between. She is a Best of the Net nominee for her hybrid essay, "On the Way." Her creative writing – poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid forms – has been published internationally since 2004. Her poems are available at The Orchards Poetry Journal, Litro Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, ARC Journal, Poetry Breakfast, Dog-Ear, World’s Best Poems, and Headline Poetry and Press. She has a PhD in Life Sciences from the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany and is a certified Forest Bathing Guide and Forest Therapy Practitioner. Romanian-born, she has lived in Germany and Canada since 2004. Currently, she is pursuing an MA in Creative Writing at Teesside University in the UK and roaming the Bavarian alpine borderlands, where earth, air, and water feel like home.

Seasons of Change is a poetry collection that traces human experiences, mapping them onto the rhythms of the natural world. In an era of climate change, the need for a more interconnected way of living has never been more urgent. This collection invites us to rekindle our bond with nature, remembering our place within it rather than our separation from it. It encourages us to slow down, attune to our senses, and align our lives with the restorative cycles of Mother Earth. A tender call and a quiet invitation, this book urges us to spiral back – beyond language, beyond time – to our very essence.

“Diana Radovan’s words are not afraid to dissect, to bring out trapped words of the body, of the nervous system, and the layered, emotional experiences of womanhood. Diana leans into rewilding her language as the poetry of her soul pushes boundaries, extends touch, and loves fiercely.” - Sarah Joy Thompson, Filipina-American poet and author of Uprooted Orchid (FlowerSong Press, 2025)

“Living in the seam between languages and topographies, Diana Radovan's poems sing and summon, whistling like wind over an open notebook, gazing at the ravine below. The lyric presence of nature calls us into the spaces that shape us and recreate us.
As with the ancient shepherding trails of transhumance that can be found on every continent, the reader is reconnected to a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures, that imagines a self without weaponized borders and walls. At a time when so many words seek to alienate us further from the vulnerable natural world, Radovan’s poems refigure marvel and sublimity. They hold us in wonder and possibility, and perhaps greatest of all, in breath-taking hope.”
- Alina Stefanescu, author of My Heresies (Sarabande Books, 2025)

“These are poems of singular imagination, experimentation, and discipline. Radovan consistently wows with sharp turns, wild jumps and brilliant epiphanies. Her unique voice is like a vision of ancient waterfalls, full of inner wisdom.” - Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of Bad Mexican, Bad American (The University of Chicago Press, 2024) and The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025)

For more information about Diana, visit:

Hybrid Nature Writing Beyond Borders
dianaradovan.com

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