Café by Wren’s St James-in-the-Fields, Lunchtime / Kawiarnia przy St James Wrena w porze lunchu

by ANNA BLASIAK (poetry) and LISA KALLOO (photography) This book has collaboration and translation at its heart: between people, words and images, languages, cultures. The poems came first, in Polish. Then came the photographic response to them. Then four translators, MARTA DZIUROSZ, MARIA JASTRZĘBSKA, DANUSIA STOK and ELŻBIETA WÓJCIK-LEESE, took a set of 12 or 13 poems each …

Stripping Wallpaper, Holidays at Grandma’s, Potatoes, Swimming in a Storm, *** (I’m such a Moodometer), *** (On the bare table), *** (Outside insistent)

Published in / Opublikowane w: The High Window Date of publication / Data publikacji: April, 2020 STRIPPING WALLPAPER Layers of old lives sleep hidden out of sight.Steam reveals their sticky smell.My hand tremblesevery time I start to peel another piece. Bare wall underneath tells an altogether different story. Translated by Maria Jastrzębska ZRYWANIE TAPET Stare …