Lebel's poetry is a poetry of sound, a poetry juggling with tones, with a timbre, a poetry of verses excited for the approaching rhyme or assonance...
The ability to develop a stimulus or feeling into sound fireworks leaves a welcome space for formulating the feelings of a person who looks at life and the world around from a vantage point, with an appropriate amount of distance, skepticism and irony. But this is no verse of a bitter old man. We are still in a world of sonority and imagination, where balance reigns. The words continue to rush for more sound effects, but they carry meaning, hold shape and theme, and explore dark depths. Instead of juggling words, feelings and attitudes are poetically expressed here, which have bitter equanimity, nostalgia and depth.
Years ago, Zdeněk Lebl created the All-Kámoška Conference. Alone with his gift of fearless improvisation, which convinces with the power of speech that everything is as he tells them, he organized in the late normalization gray a gathering of several
dozens of poets who managed to create a Dionysian carnival in Davli for two days, in which the meaningless became meaningful (and sometimes vice versa). And his impromptu recitations were the highlight all those days. Since then, I hear his voice even from poems that only have a paper form. However, I believe that the poems contained in this volume, which he wrote only in recent years, are able to speak to those who do not remember this voice, but can sense it from the letters, verses and shapes of individual poems.

From Peter A. Bílek