20 articles in this issue
Edyta Soltys-Lewandowska
The article explores pictures of “a little girl” and of sexual initiation in 20th and 21st-century Polish women’s poetry, especially by Wislawa Szymborska, Barbara Klicka, Jolanta Nawrot, Wioletta Grzegorzewska i Malgorzata Lebda. The girlhood showed in t... see more
Jaroslaw Fazan
The paper applies to the work of one of the most important Polish writers of the last decade. Bargielska combines bold poetic experiments with a keen testimony of an ordinary life of a young woman, who experiences life in the beginning of the 21st century... see more
Agnieszk Czyzak
The article contains interpretations of verses written by Marta Podgórnik during last twenty years (1996-2016). This analysis of Silesian writer’s poetry lead to recognitions of aspects, themes, images, particularites it includes. Podgórnik creates pictur... see more
Magdalena Rabizo-Birek
The article describes the work of the poet from Cracow,the author of short stories, essayist and translator – Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska. Her poems were situated on the map of Polish literature among the “born in the seventies”, in the strand of “emboldened ... see more
Elzbieta Winiecka
The article presents the works of Aneta Kaminska as an example of the phenomenon of remediation, it is the impact of digital media on poetry and literary communication. The authoress examines the subsequent volumes of poetry and forms of Kaminska’s online... see more
Iwona Gralewicz-Wolny
The article is devoted to the issue of the relationship between poetry and prose area of Wioletta Grzegorzewska’s literary activity. Nominated for the most important national literary awards and the Man Booker International Prize Guguly (2014) are here in... see more
Krzysztof Witczak
The essay concerns the work of Joanna Mueller, who is one of the main representatives of polish linguistic poetry. Her project combines the tradition of linguistic poetry and body experience. This strategy requires the development of a new understanding o... see more
Marta Stusek
The article discusses the works of Klara Nowakowska, including all published volumes of the poet. Interpretations of specific works, as well as overall analyses present poems of Nowakowska as cropped images which in the imperfect way are reflecting realit... see more
Alina Swiesciak
The author presents poetry by Kamila Janiak in the context of avant-guard pop-culture. She deals mainly with punk and cyber-punk motifs of this poetry, which alow to understand them as a feminist, post-human and anty-capitalist project. She shows how Jani... see more
Katarzyna Wadolny-Tatar
The main concept of Anna Augustyniak’s poetic volume (Bez ciebie, Warsaw 2014) is based on poetics and semantics of a number of categories: deficiency, body, affection, journey. They make an entanglement, which shows the metamorphosis of feminine lyrical ... see more
Daria Lekowska
The article is an attempt to interpret the work of the Krak.w poet from the ecocritical perspective. The central point of study is ecopoetics understood as a type of sensitivity, an attitude towards the world and a certain way of writing that shapes reade... see more
Piotr Luszczykiewicz
The article attempts to analyze the poetry of Katarzyna Fetlinska with the main stress laid upon her volume Sekstasmy (Sex Tapes). The author tries to verify critical tracks and generalizations, introduced mostly by editorial and publishing descriptions w... see more
Anna Wegrzyniak
The key to reading Julia Fiedorczuk’s poems – interpreted within the paradigm of eco-poetry – are the words used in the titles of her poetry volumes: “bio”, “planet” and “oxygen”, which foretell bio-centrism. The poetic imagery unites organic tissues with... see more
Joanna Gradziel-Wójcik
Julia Fiedorczuk’s academic, journalistic and critical activity invites readings of her poetry in the context of ecopoetics, which she actively promotes. Her ecocritically oriented poems explore the links between poetry and natural environment, proposing ... see more
Agnieszka Waligóra
The paper is an attempt to analyse Barbara Klicka’s book of poetry nice, written in 2015. The interpretation is focused mainly on forms, which oscillate between prose poem and free verse. It also examines genological issues and shows main topics of presen... see more
Agnieszka Salska
The article traces Polish translations of Dickinson’s poetry preceding and following the publication in the nineteen nineties of 200 poems by Emily Dickinson translated by Stanislaw Baranczak. It comments on some Polish poets’ response to Dickinson in the... see more
Ewa Rajewska
The article discusses a translation of a Carol Shields’s novel Swann. A Mystery (1987) by a Polish poet Ludmila Marjanska (Zagadka wiecznego pióra, 1998). Marjanska’s translation is not an easy one to assess: it contains some shifts as well as simple mist... see more
Magda Heydel
The paper looks at two book-length poems by Alice Oswald’s: Dart (2002) and Memorial (2011) as translation projects, with an aim to understand both the nature of Oswald’s poetic practice and her concept of what is the meaning and goal of translation in cr... see more
Olga Kubinska
The bilingual poetry of Irena Klepfisz, a Polish-born Jewish-American poet, seems to constitute a unique case of Holocaust poetry. The poet, an intellectual and activist engaged in lesbian, queer, feminist and gender movements, advocates the reading of Ho... see more
Mateusz Bourkane
The work concerns two short letters by Stanislaw Wyspianski, which haven’t been published before. The letters, adressed to Maria Siedlecka and Eliza Parenska, seem to be important in context of the artist’s biography.