Abstract
For decades, Darko Suvin has enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a distinguished science fiction and utopian scholar, best known for his seminal work Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre, equally important for both SF and utopian studies. Suvin's introduction of the Russian formalist/Brechtian–inspired concept of estrangement proved to be revolutionary in both academic fields of research. His definition of utopia is now one of the recognized stepping-stones in the study of utopia.1However, it is less known that Suvin is not just a dedicated and fruitful theoretician but an accomplished poet, and a utopian one at that....