Maria Jastrzębska was born in Poland but arrived in the UK in the 1950s at the age of four. Anna Blasiak arrived in the UK from Poland in 2003, age twenty-nine. Both women are poets, both are queer. In the following conversation (which they hold in English), they discuss the similarities and differences between their …
Published in / Opublikowane w: Modern Poetry in Translation Date of publication / Data publikacji: Spring 2019 Holidays at Grandma’s A tall willow tree rocked in the wind. You could touch its catkins from the swing. Just needed to get it going hard enough. Further down there was a walnut tree. We built an entire …
Justyna Bargielska has published eight poetry collections in her native Poland, as well as two fiction books and two children’s books. She has won some of the most prestigious literary prizes in Poland, has been translated and published in many languages (including in English in Modern Poetry in Translation) and has become a fixture on …
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Poland is Market Focus at The London Book Fair 2017. On this occasion British Council has commissioned a series of blogs and other texts focusing on Polish literature. Today was my turn. I decided to discuss some of the Polish writers living in the British Isles, both those writing in Polish and in English. Here it …
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Between Wor(l)ds. An evening of poetry with Maria Jastrzębska and Anna Blasiak 16 February, 7pm, Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ Behind a curtain of leaves, behind the trees and the shadows, heart-breaking stories are told with reticence and hesitation. Something to do with nationality, memory, language and gender, patiently revealed in the …
Od 18 listopada do 8 grudnia 2016 roku Maria Jastrzębska ponownie gości w Polsce z wierszami z tomu Cedry z Walpole Park (w tłumaczeniach Anny Błasiak, Pawła Gawrońskiego i Wioletty Grzegorzewskiej). Na trasie: Wrocław, Brzeg, Olkusz, Kraków. A oto szczegóły: 21 listopada – godzina 18:00, Księgarnia “Tajne Komplety” Wrocław, prowadzenie; Radosław Wiśniewski 22 listopada – …
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Polish books in translation? It takes some effort to find them in bookshops and even more effort to read about them in the review sections of newspapers and magazines, or to find them in public libraries. And when it comes to books written by Polish women? Well, need I say more? We’ve heard it all …
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