#RivetingReads: Ursula Phillips Recommends SCATTERING THE DARK edited by Karen Kovacik

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 literary historian and translator from Polish. Her translation of Zofia Nałkowska’s novel Choucas (1927) won the Found in Translation Award 2015.

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