I am a poet. And I travel. Well, perhaps less so right now, but hopefully this is just temporary … My poetry travels too – between Polish and English (sometimes it gets transla
I was a voracious reader when growing up, I always had a book (or several) in my hand, I was reading in any and every situation, sometimes after lights out against my parents’ wi
The third episode of The Polka Podcast is now available to list on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, but also on YouTube and Amazon Music. Part 1: Polish poetry now Our guest, Piotr Florczy
‘In your person, our history is stitched together’ Psalm to Saint Sabina, translated by Anna Blasiak, is a book-length poem by Polish poet Radosław Wiśniewski that traces the
There are times of departureswhen you abandon places likeclock that loses time and headstowards other destinations, whenthe sun unrolls the earth fromclouds that let you face it, g
A disclaimer first – I have just translated an extensive extract from this novel. And, as always happens, translating forced me to read deeply, perhaps more deeply that I would h
The girl who won't come home from work.By the tape measure & the pen holder – redlike the apple the witch offeredto Snow White, red like Eve's.Between the apple & the wor
The second episode of The Polka Podcast is now available to list on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, but also on YouTube and Amazon Music. Part 1 of the episode focuses on main literature
1.Saint Sabina of Brzeg, Kolomyia, Sniatyn, Łapy, Tobolsk,whose ID said your place of birth was Sniatyn in the USSR, even though when you were born there was no USSRand the ruler
Psalm to Saint Sabina by Radosław Wiśniewski is the first publication released by a Ramsgate-based indie publisher, Sideways Press, set up in 2025 by a poet, translator and ELNet
