and you when you pop in to see your neighbours do you also take a mobile crematorium with you? Warsaw, 10 April 2022
By Aneta Kamińska
Translated by Anna Blasiak
Aneta Kamińska is a Polish poet and a translator of Ukrainian poetry into Polish. She has published seven volumes of her own poetry, of which the most recent one is teraz zaraz (2002). She has also published translations of several Ukrainian poets, including Nazar Honchar, Halyna Tkachuk, Lyubov Yakymchuk, Julia Stakhivska, Vasyl Holoborodko, Emma Andiyevska, Kateryna Kalytko, as well as three anthologies of Ukrainian poetry in Polish.
Anna Blasiak is a poet, writer, translator, journalist and managing editor of the European Literature Network. She has translated over 40 books from English into Polish and some fiction and poetry from Polish into English. In addition to her book-length translations, her work has appeared in Best European Fiction 2015, Asymptote, the Guardian, B O D Y Literature, Modern Poetry in Translation and York Literary Review. Anna writes poetry in Polish and in English. She has published a bilingual poetry and photography book with Lisa Kalloo, Kawiarnia przy St James’s Wrena w porze lunchu / Café by Wren’s St-James-in-the-Fields, Lunchtime, and a book-length interview with a Holocaust survivor Lili.
Photo by Lisa Kalloo
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