In his lecture for the 1980 Nobel Prize in literature, the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) referred to his work as “a quest for reality.” Miłosz’s life was one long defense of ...

Poetry has occupied a special place in Polish literature for at least 200 years. After the loss of the nation's independence in 1795, poetry became a vehicle of national identity for over a century ...

Is poetry after the Holocaust possible? Here’s a look at ways in which poets used the Polish language to react to the unprecedented tragedy of the Holocaust: from the first-hand wartime testimonies, ...

Often compared to the tragedy of Macbeth, the play, authored by Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, criticizes ruthless human nature and warns against the corruptive nature of unchecked ambition.

“Gone is the age of satire,” the speaker says, but this very poem, worthy of Swift, demonstrates that satire is, if dangerous ...

Tokimasa Sekiguchi, 74, a prominent Japanese scholar specialising in Polish literature, has received the Gold Gloria Artis ...

WARSAW, Poland — Adam Zagajewski, the celebrated Polish poet whose melancholy reflections on the erosion of the world came to express an unfathomable moment of shock and loss after the 9-11 attacks in ...

Bohdan is a Polish poet based in Birmingham. He has taken his poems to venues ranging from an underground Tokyo club to a tramway in Paris. In the UK, he regularly features at the country’s most ...