Walter Puchner appears as the director of his poems, as during the reading of his poetry collections he calls the reader to change roles. The poet-director has the ability to give the reader the role of the explorer, and as he walks on a theatrical stage, to hear the titles of the poems from groups of all ages, from which one group paints the poems on canvas, another reads the verses in a novel or play, another group composes another poem into a musical work. And we, the explorers, are carried away by the echo of the verses, and we are led into the depths of poetry that accompanies the field of visual arts.

Mariza Galani

Walter Puchner offers us a deep confession of his deepest fears, thoughts, disappointments, and expectations. He shares his life experiences, his anxieties, and the essence of his wisdom, with a poetic discourse that is aphoristic, sometimes cryptic, without hesitation, in some of his poems, to follow even playful parody.
He advises, encourages, and soothes - like a mother to a child - young poets for their poetry, not hesitating to criticize his own writings and doubting his own worth as a poet. Doubts that arise from artistic sensitivity, the anxiety of the creator not to disappoint the little child hidden within him, the child who accompanied him for so many years and showed him the way.

Ioanna Theou