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Despite the fact that Slovak poetry did not develop the historical form of minimalism, which culminated in the Euro-American space in the sixties to the eighties of the 20th century, even under the influence of contacts with the work of foreign authors, several Slovak artists adopted and creatively adapted the singular features of minimalist poetics – conceptuality, aesthetics of the sublime, poetics of indications, ellipsis, short forms of narrative, enunciative, intermediality, seriality, thematic minimalism. Peter Zajac connects them with the cultural paradigm of minimal and perceives them also in contemporary art as productive tendencies of visual art and literature. The study focuses on the work of Rudolf Jurolek, a representative of natural lyricism with subtle spiritual overtones. His tendencies towards short form and reductiveness can be noted in various transformations from his journal beginnings in the seventies of the 20th century to the collection of poetry Bukolika, for which he received an award Zlatá vlna in 2022. Jurolek's manifestations of minimalism impress with their conceptual character and variety of procedures, but also with their own conceptual concept, in which minimalism is connected with complementary and harmonizing processes.