In LIT_cast Slovakia 23 literature scholar Ivana Hostová talks to Julia Sherwood about the agendas that drive translations of Slovak poetry into English and why quantity does not necessarily translate into quality, and why publishing poetry in translation is challenging even in a translation-dominated culture such as Slovakia. She also introduces Nóra Ružičková, one of the first Slovak experimental poets, as well as the subversive poetry of Peter Macsovszky.