Summer, wild summer
The morning lined with felt and the patient work of red
thread – faith in justice and hope for reward.
Imagine the summer as the insides of a stalk, now
whimpering in the fire. Or as a fox’s paw print on the path
to the latrine. Yes, that is where I sought out my own
glade, but my hands kept hitting turf
or the shoots of wet ferns. I sometimes dream of that
camp, a morose resort in the lands of Lemkos, shady
pastures and stuffy, buzzing raspberry bushes. And then
silence, a form of thick formalin, which over the course
of months can suspend a scrap of flesh from a branch.
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Thursday 7 October, 7pm – 9pm
Topolski Century
150-152 Hungerford Arches
Concert Hall Approach, London SE1 8XU
Free, but rsvp essential at off_press(at)polishculture.org.uk
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Zapraszamy do udziału w konkursie na haiku poświęcone miastu prowadzonym po polsku oraz w kilkunastu językach europejskich!
Odbywa się on w ramach kampanii Wiersze w Metrze 2010.
Wystarczy napisać trzywersowe (5-7-5 sylab) haiku poświęcone miastu. Do wygrania odtwarzacze MP3 oraz aplikacje World Traveler. Najlepsze haiku znajdą się również na wystawie w pasażu stacji Metro Centrum w Warszawie.
KONKURS TRWA DO 30 WRZEŚNIA 2010.
Zgłoszenia na konkurs oraz haiku należy przesyłać na adres: haiku@wierszewmetrze.eu , same wiersze haiku należy zamieszczać na stronie Facebook Burn In Heads.
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the UK launch of FREE OVER BLOOD, an anthology of Poland’s most vital contemporary poetry in English translation, each copy of the book is accompanied by EVERYTHING POETRY STILL a documentary film on DVD – the event includes film screening, live performance of poetry and song from several international artists
Venue: the Topolski Century, Southbank
Tickets: free
Contact: Marek Kazmierski
Telephone: 07984128406
Email: off_press@polishculture.org.uk
Website: www,off-press.org
Shortcomings
At first, tell tales, rant until it’s gibberish.
Time is a relative matter, look over your shoulder just in case.
Or look behind you. For why should you not age?
K picks a battered handbag off the asphalt, puts it down again.
K likes it when you kick your legs, swinging, carefree
(I only felt this way once, 21 VIII 2005).
Then the photos develop, aping our ancestors’ shamans.
Unashamed of shame, never angry at one’s own anger.
And dancing, though as a rule she tends not to.
And dancing, though as a rule she tends not to.
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Graham Greene’s controversial play The Potting Shed returns for its first London production in just under 40 years… An estranged son desperately searches for the missing childhood memories that left him rejected by his father, alienated from his family and alone in the world. After a generation of denial, will the Callifer family ever end their silence on what happened in the potting shed all those years ago? The Potting Shed was written in 1958 and originally produced at the Globe Theatre by H. M. Tennent Ltd with Sir John Gielgud, Irene Worth and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. It was last seen in London in 1971 at Sadler’s Wells with Cliff Richard in the lead role.
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Tony Judt (1948–2010)
“The poet Paul Celan said of his native Czernowitz that it was a place where people and books used to live. Tony Judt was a man for whom books lived, as well as people. His mind, like his apartment on Washington Square, was full of books—and they walked with him, arguing, to the very end.”
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