In a blurry photo from my first trip to Poland at 19, me and my godmother, one of my mother’s ten siblings, are laughing together, a thousand feet into the earth, in a 13th century chapel made ...

The creativity of the new generation and the power of translation are the foundational pillars of the special literary events ...

The 15 local poets include well-established writers in this region. They will read and sell their books. This is free.

Moments after arriving in Lodz, central Poland, my taxi driver asks what other Polish destinations I’ve visited. I mention Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Krakow, and he smiles. “Well,” he says.

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

On Poet in the New World, by Czesław Miłosz. “Probably in no language other than Polish are there so many terrifying poems, documents of the Holocaust,” Miłosz explained. Responding to Theodor ...

This year’s jury is comprised of Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels, Northern Irish poet and novelist Nick Laird, and Polish poet, translator, and essayist Tomasz Różycki. This year’s shortlist ...

The 300-year-old winner is a beloved symbol of its local community The Heart of the Dalkowskie Hills, a breathtaking 300-year-old beech, has won Poland the European Tree of the Year award for the ...

The Heart of the Dalkowskie Hills, a breathtaking 300-year-old beech, has won Poland the European Tree of the Year award for the fourth consecutive time. Standing tall in Dalków's historic park ...