Tuesday 1 June at 7.00 p.m.
Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk will talk, with her translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones, to the journalist and broadcaster Rosie Goldsmith about her work. Tokarczuk’s acclaimed novels include House of Day, House of Night (shortlisted for the IMPAC award) and Primeval and Other Times (Twisted Spoon Press). In her latest book, Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead, she returns to the rural setting of those earlier stories, a village in south-west Poland where mysterious and magical things are happening within a deceptively realistic world.
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our latest test copy of OFF_ANTHOLOGIA stolen again…
first film ready to burn and ship (see trailer on Home page)…
I’m off to visit Zeszyty Poetyckie in Gniezno…
Travel with Pawel Gawronski (see foto right) and his guitar…
Filming, translating, seeing the other side of the Grey Zone – the fields, the seas, the mountains…
See you back here in two weeks time – OFF_Marek
© by Emilian Snarski
Wednesday 12 May, 6.30pm
British Library, Conference Centre
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
£7.50 (£5 concessions) – buy online
For one night, capital cities across Europe are presenting simultaneous celebrations of writing and reading on European Literature Night, and the British Library will once again host an electrifying evening of readings and conversation from some superlative writers, both emerging and established. Come and meet this year’s authors:
Jacek Dehnel (Poland)
Otto de Kat (Netherlands)
Paolo Giordano (Italy)
Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria)
Julya Rabinowicz (Austria)
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (Lithuania)
Miloš Urban (Czech Republic)
The event will be chaired by writer and presenter Rosie Goldsmith.
Impressions from a reading
in an old bookshop, I bought
a collection of Szymborska’s poems from 1972
in any case
between pages eight and nine
between error and impressions from a play
I found
a grey label
torn
from a cotton shirt
made in england
St. Michael
for a child up to 10 years old
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Threnody IX. Account
Reistych
Exporting: 80 zl
Refrigeration: 4 days at 25 zl each
making 100.
Transit: 180 + 240.
Total: 420 zl
Wreath, veiled: 250 zl
Floral arrangement: 170.
Coffin (pine): 740 zl
Coffin fittings: nil.
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36,6oC
I am lost. Now, I have to start believing in the one, common and holy pass which will lead me out of these lands. I stop at each and every crossing. I look to the left, look to the right, no cars, move along.
I avoid people whose hands are as dry as leaflets. Passing little girls dolled up for their First Communion, I smell the hairspray fixing plastic lilies in their hair.
Saps dissolve in the sinews of polished benches, the heatwave stretching pavements to braking point. I’m getting closer. Neighborhood women returning from afternoon mass. They do not sweat, because each summer water blooms in their blood, heavy with eternity.
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