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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, ...

Several Polish poets have been included in The New Yorker's "A Century of Poetry 1925-2025," a collection of verse published in the American magazine over the past 100 years. Pixabay ...

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 ...

Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska was acclaimed for her effervescent wit and ...

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 ...