Scattering the Dark is a magnificent collection of 20th– and 21st-century poetry by Polish women in translation, edited by Karen Kovacik. By Ursula Phillips Scattering the Dark: An Anthology of Polish Women Poets edited by Karen Kovacik published by White Pine Press (2016) Ursula Phillips is a
France is this year’s Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Buchmesse. However, the recognition is not only for France, but also the French language including Francophone writers and publishers. This is a good sign, but also a pragmatic decision, explains Pierre Myszkowski of the Bureau international d
I fell in love. He was a poet. He was 100 years old. In the centenary year of Czeslaw Milosz I discovered his Collected Poems. Thank you Poland. By Rosie Goldsmith The Collected Poems by Czesław Miłosz published by Ecco Press (1988) Rosie Goldsmith is Director of the European Literature Netw
Yugoslavia has disappeared, but its spirit continues to live in works of fiction being written in its former territories, spanning “from the River Vardar to the Triglav mountain”, as a metonimic verse from a 1980s popular Yugoslav song states (Vardar is a river in the most southern part of the
‘Farewell To Europe’ Could any film, or any writer, be better suited to help us understand The State We Are In? ‘Farewell To Europe’ is the 2016 film about the exile of the Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The film describes Zweig’s loss of his European homeland after escaping to So
“Without a country we have nothing to lose.” Bartek Sabela’s reportage Every Grain of Sand portrays hope and hopelessness in Western Sahara. By Tul’si Bhambry Wszystkie ziarna piasku (“Every Grain of Sand”) by Bartek Sabela published by Czarne (2015) Tul’si (aka Tuesday) Bh
