Airbeletrina, 6. november 2025 ― Macedonian poet Nikola Madžirov (1973) is considered one of the most recognisable and established names in the contemporary Balkan region. As a poet, he travels extensively, and among other things, this year he was the guest of honour at the Days of Poetry and Wine festival, as part of which a selection of his poems, The Compass of Time (Beletrina, 2025), translated by Namita Subiotto, was published. He began travelling, as he says, even before he learned the story of his own name—his surname means ‘migrant’ or ‘person without a home’, which comes from the Arabic word muhajir (muadžir)—and the themes of home, abandonment, roots and memory are also one of the central axes of his poetry. He calls himself ‘a descendant of refugees and an heir to temporary homes’, and in our conversation we touched not only on his poetic language, but also on his reflections on the meaning of growing up and living in no man’s land along the three borders, and on the questions of what it means to belong and to leave—and how to preserve in language what is destined to disappear. Photo: Thomas Kierok The title of your poetry collection The Compass of Time (Šestilo časa) suggests measurement and circulation. How do you actually experience time—as a linear path that moves forward and can be measured very precisely, or more like a circle that constantly returns? “Linear time is like the cardiogram image of someone who dies. I would like to regard time as an imperfect and unfinished circle, drawn with a compass in a trembling hand. In the openness of that circle lies the threshold of all returns and memories. There is the gate of rebirth before the last breath.” In the poem Discovery you wrote these wonderful lines: ‘My home every day / under the roof of the world changes mysteriously, / childhood itself is like honey, / which does not allow any foreign traces in itself.’ What was your childhood like? How do you remember it? “In my early childhood, in rare moments of

Knjižnica Slovenska Bistrica, 6. november 2025 ― Knjižnica Josipa Vošnjaka Slovenska Bistrica in Društvo zeliščarjev Hermelika sta v ponedeljek, 3. novembra, pripravila zanimivo predavanje Kako ohraniti in izboljšati svoje zdravje.  Zdravje je naša največja vrednota, nekaj kar pogosto začnemo zares ceniti šele, ko izgubimo. A dobra novica je, da lahko veliko naredimo sami, da svoje telo in duha ohranimo v ravnovesju. Ne gre za velike spremembe, temveč za majhne, a dosledne korake vsak dan. Na predavanju nam je gospod Rudi Kruh predstavil zdravilne učinke soka pirine trave in čaja rujevine. Pira je starodavno žito, bogato s hranili in vitamini, ki lajša težave pri različnih boleznih. Rujevina je pogosto prezrta rastlina naših gozdov, ki ima močne antiseptične in protivnetne lastnosti. Tako sok pire in čaj rujevine so imeli obiskovalci moč degustirati. Miro Farčnik in Vesna Kovač pa sta predstavila kristalizacijo žive vode. Ko združimo piro v prehrani, rujevino v čajni skodelici in živo vodo v kozarcu, dobimo popolno ravnovesje – kombinacijo starodavne modrosti in sodobnega zavedanja o zdravju. To je preprost način, kako vsak dan narediti nekaj dobrega zase – brez dodatkov, le z darovi narave. Mojca Amon