Verses with sexism and albanophobia can be found in some of the songs from the collection of poetry from the project "Young poets", a publication issued by the Agency for Youth and Sports, which was published this weekend as a contribution to the daily newspaper Nova Makedonija.
On social networks a lot of negative comments, - Focus.
After a number of negative reactions, the press conference was held by the Agency's director, Darko Kaevski. He condemned the songs with insulting content, and stressed that the commission was obliged to make a selection of songs and to inform him as director of remarks.
"There must be professional responsibility, you have to know who has silenced this and allowed it to happen," he said.
He added that he had already spoken to the committee chairman, who claimed that he did not consider it necessary to make a selection of songs and that everyone had the right to freedom of speech.
"There should be freedom of speech, but not speech of hatred. We withdraw all printed editions. There is no more room for hate speech and discrimination, "says Kaevski.
He said he does not resign from the position of director for the time being, adding that it is more important to find out who is to blame for the scandal, Radio Free Europe reported.
The author of the preface of the controversial collection of poetry from the project "Young Poets", the poet Nikolina Andova Szopova reacts that the commission whose member she is and she was not consulted on the selection of songs to be printed. On her Facebook profile, she writes that the commission did not participate in the arrangement of the collection nor in the selection of songs, but the only obligation as she stated, either to award three awards for the best three songs, Makfax reported.
Daniel Piljakovski, whose name is found under the poems in the Youth poet's poetry collection of youth and sport in which he has profanity, discrimination and sexism, claims that his name is misused by a certain Aleksandar Blazevski and that he is not the author of the songs.
"I categorically deny that I am the author of those songs. My identity is abused by Aleksandar Blazevski. Please help me in clarifying this case, as big problems are created to me", says Piljakovski.
His name stands under two poems published in a collection of poetry by young authors, which has caused a number of negative reactions to social networks because they are abundant with inappropriate content, profanity, and discrimination.
An independent newspaper reports that Aleksandar Blazevski from the village of Jankovec, Resensko, is the author of the controversial songs that appeared in the collection of poetry "Young poets" published by the Agency for Youth and Sport.
Blazhevski for "Independent newspaper" confirmed that he is the author and that he very much wanted to publish his songs somewhere, so he applied for the competition. According to him, he fulfilled one of the conditions of the competition, that poets who had nothing issued should apply, but the age limit was up to 29 years.
- I write poems, I write poetry. I told Daniel that I would apply under his name, because I am over 40 years old. I wanted my songs to come to light and to be read. If there is any legal basis to react, I stand completely behind every word written and I take all the responsibility - Blazevski said in a telephone conversation for "Independent newspaper".
