Man of letters, lyricist His first publication was released in collaboration with his co-student Zdeněk Bugáň as a small-imprint bibliophilia at their own expense. He had contributed his lyrics for the theatre plays of the director Petr Poledňák. He would publish literary reviews in the magazine Tvar. He is a member of the Czech PEN club. He has published over twenty collections of poems. He worked as a pharmacist in Strakonice.