Ana-Maria Crețu - Poetic Counterparts

‘Poetry, like the movie theater, is built out of dark and
light. The ink and the page. The room and the screen.'

- Adam O. Davis

‘Poetic Counterparts’ is the seventh Kertecz publication and the first collection of poetry published by Bristol based writer Ana-Maria Crețu,

Combining her interests of poetry and the cinema, Crețu finds her ‘artistic home’ in a sparsely written selection of cine-related poems ranging from the films of Jean Pierre Melville, Abbas Kiarostami, the New German Cinema and more.

Featuring a foreword by Kertecz editor, Mark Anthony Pearce and cover art by Kertecz collaborator Seth Guy, ‘Poetic Counterparts’ combines both the power of nostalgia and memory alongside an intriguing ‘artistic analogue’ to the medium of film.

ANA-MARIA CREŢU

Ana-Maria Crețu lives and works in Bristol. By day she does research in philosophy and history of science. Also, by day, and sometimes by night, she writes poems, essays, children's stories, and short stories. Ana's love of movies started at an early age before she had even seen her first feature film and long before she saw her first film in the cinema. It started with Charlie Chaplin's films, from which her dad would often recount entire scenes, so faithfully that she could picture them. A thousand films later, her love of cinema found its artistic expression in poetry. Ana loves cats and thinks a lot about cats and the apocalypse and writes poems about both. Though not usually at the same time.

Published April 2026.

A5 chapbook, thirty-nine pages.

Strictly limited to forty copies, individually numbered.

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