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""From now on, when people ask me what living in Tokyo is like, I will be directing them to this marvelous book - where the art and words alike shun hipster dystopia for a balance of Ultraurban energy and existential pastiche."" - Jordan A. Y. Smith, professor of Japanese literature and producer of film / documentary ""The cybertronic chrysalis cracks open and the new mythographer of a megalopolis emerges -- the shattered/splattered energy emporium spliced with deadstreaming irradiation and punch/punk-drunk ravaging. Sharpened and bleeding Zoria Petkoska's blade-edged voice cleaves its way through a 'city hooked to jumpstart cables' with nods to neo-imagist ideals, highjacked haiku brevity and a lightning glitch-krieg attack slashing and burning down the barcode tea-fields. Complimented by Simon Kalajdjiev's deconstructive-disintegrative elasticated dysto-habitats, the amalgam is a 'sensory overload tank' to wallow in and wonder at."" - Chris Mosdell, poet and lyricist (YMO, Michael Jackson, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop) ""DYSTOKYO hit me like a whirlwind, throwing me back against the walls and deep into the recesses of my imagination. The interplay of poetry and striking imagery blurs the boundaries between viewer and reader, repeatedly transforming one into the other. "" - Ivan Durgutovski, designer and art curator

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Zoria is a polyglot, polymath, poet, a neo-Tokyoite telling stories about the city that take a myriad of forms, from travelogues to experimental visual poems. Whenever possible, she will bend language to create a ""wordigami"" or grow a poetry bonsai. She has come up with the Poetry Archeology creative writing method for which she holds workshops and has been an early proponent of cyber(punk) and futuristic poetry. She is an award-winning translator, editor-in-chief of the literary journal [Ш] and editor at Tokyo Poetry Journal. Zoria holds a Master's degree in English Literature and Translation, with postgraduate research studies in Japanese visual poetry from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Zoria's book of visual poetry and calligraphy titled ""Зборигами"" (Matica, 2015) or ""Wordigami"" in English depicts Japan through haiku-esque poems written in the shape of kanji characters. After moving to Tokyo, in 2017 she created her ""Distilled Emotion: Neuromancer's Tokyo"" exhibition (both in Tokyo and Skopje), experimenting with visual poetry made of punctuation and thematically exploring William Gibson's cyberpunk classic. In 2020 she first started publishing poems she labeled cyber[punk] and she gave a presentation on innovation and futurism in poetry at The Japan Writers Conference 2021. When Simon isn't glitching views of Tokyo he took on the city streets, you can find him drawing meticulously detailed bird-eye views of this metropolis. His fascination with urban cityscapes dates back to his time in the Faculty of Fine Arts. He exhibited ""Citygraphy,"" a series of Tokyo and Seoul cityscapes painted with acrylics on canvas, in 2015 in Skopje. Drawing Tokyo became Simon's full time job in 2016 when he moved to Tokyo and started working for the architecture firm Nikken Sekkei.Simon is an award-winning futurist, often drawing Tokyo as it might or will become in the future. This goes beyond his architectural illustration, as he has always had an imaginative mind and is constantly creating new cities, worlds and stories. He is the creator of the Araknights Gothika Project and ""Verlossen"" (Flip Book Books, 2023) an art book with prose and poetry by 14 writers accompanying his art.

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