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. I…
Holidays at Grandma’s
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 ca…
#RivetingReviews: THE GREAT PLAN B by Justyna Bargielska
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 Polan…
British Council First Monday Blog: Polish Literature Across Borders
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 …
Sheffield, here we come!
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…
Maria Jastrzębska Cedry z Walpole Park Poland Small Tour 2016
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). …
10 Books by Polish Women Writers We’d Like to See Translated
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 librar…