Scottish Poetry Library Podcast

In this podcast, Jennifer Williams, SPL Programme Manager, talks to Polish poet, essayist, editor and critic Tadeusz Dąbrowski. They are joined by Kasia Kokowska of Interaktywny Salon Piszących w Szkocji, who came along to help with translating. He has also been the winner of numerous awards, among others, the Kościelski Prize (2009), the Hubert Burda Prize (2008) and, from Tadeusz Różewicz, the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Culture (2006). He is the author of six volumes of poetry, and edited the anthology Poza słowa. Tadeusz has been widely published and translated into 20 languages, and a collection of his poetry in English, Black Square, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, was published by Zephyr Press (http://www.polishculture.org.uk/literature/books/news/article/black-square-by-tadeusz-dabrowski-1625.html) in 2011. He lives in Gdańsk and says in this interview, “All art is something like self-recognition.”