Tag: poetry

An Introduction to Evie Shockley’s “in this light”

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An Introduction to Evie Shockley’s “in this light”

Evie Shockley’s poem “in this light” tackles three Impressionist paintings in a way that shows the poet’s incredible synesthetic imagination.

Julia Fiedorczuk

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Confession

“They shriek and compete / for who has the most sins.” A poem by a contemporary Polish poet.

Krystyna Dąbrowska

Why After All This One and Not the Rest?

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Why After All This One and Not the Rest?

Wisława Szymborska is mostly known across the world for her poetry. Yet the Nobel Prize winner had another talent up her sleeve - since the 1970s, she’d been making witty collages pasted to postcards.

Adam Zdrodowski

Baltic Grey Seal, Lithuania, 2016

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Baltic Grey Seal, Lithuania, 2016

A poem by Scottish poet Gordon Meade from his Zoospeak series, which attempts to give voice to animals living in captivity.

Gordon Meade

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Voices

“And there she stands again, petite, at the blackboard.” A poem by a contemporary Polish poet.

Krystyna Dąbrowska

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glove

“a woman in a red jacket / picked up a glove from the snow…” A poem by a contemporary Polish writer.

Joanna Wajs

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always

“twenty-five years later, I spit blood into the tub...” Marcin Orliński presents a piece by a Polish poet.

An Introduction to Anna Świrszczyńska’s Warsaw Uprising Poems

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An Introduction to Anna Świrszczyńska’s Warsaw Uprising Poems

Anna Świrszczyńska’s poetry undertakes a feminine revision of one of the most tragic events in Polish history, remaining timeless to this day.

Julia Fiedorczuk

Three Poems on the Warsaw Uprising

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Three Poems on the Warsaw Uprising

“I’ll hide in the wall, I’ll go into the wall / like a centipede. / Everyone will die, and I / will survive.” Three poems by Anna Świrszczyńska (Anna Swir) from her 1974 collection “Building the Barricade”.

Anna Świrszczyńska

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raw material

“I can’t teach you to tell polymer from mesoglea...” Marcin Orliński presents a piece by a Polish poet.