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Tomasz Różycki
Colonies

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Colonies, Różycki’s first poetic book after the highly acclaimed Twelve Stations, is by no means a slighter accomplishment. Composed of 77 poems strongly interlinked by the themes of travel, writing, love and strangeness, the volume is a tribute to sheer poetic imagination. Exotic titles as if straight from a goods inventory of some fabulously wealthy colony lend the poems extra meanings, as well as a tinge of something enticingly, achingly out of reach.

“As Różycki sits up late at night in the kitchen or “is doing it” at his computer, his phantom goes travelling in distant lands, scouting into the past and making no provisions for the future. Sensitive to all things small: dust, soot, particulars of human lives, ash; a connoisseur of dregs. Just as likely to point to a sea monster on dry land, as to rock away on a rusty seesaw. A coloniser, yes – but also a wide-eyed explorer filled with a sense of wonder and fun.”

Jacek Podsiadło

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Witold Urbanowicz
Fire over China

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Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki
First Things

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First Things is a novel in stories. In this, his latest work, Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki, a writer of European renown, describes the key moments of his life, in a funny, ironic, at times a little macabre way. The real is intertwined with the fictional here, fantasy with the grotesque, and the whole is held together by a wild sense of humour. As a result, what we get is a brilliantly written, gripping, witty and wise story about a forty-year-old who, for the first time ever, seriously reflects on his life. This is outstanding writing, mainly because of the author’s juicy style and incredible imagination.

Klimko is a natural born writer. You are not likely to find the Poland and the Iceland he describes in any guidebook.

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Mariusz Sieniewicz
Glass Elephants' City

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GLASS ELEPHANTS’ CITY is a literary trip to a little town somewhere in northeastern Poland. For the two main characters, Jan who is a doctor and another Jan who is a patient in hospital, this town is the centre of the universe. Their stories seem realistic at first but gradually they begin to move towards magic and the supernatural. The town appears to be a unique universe where new stories are being created and destroyed and where new universes are shaped. In the hospital the doctors do not use lancets but they treat with the power of imagination. The town is one great factory of happiness which takes the form of glass elephants which are being sent out to the world. One day though, it appears that nothing is really what it seems and the whole universe of the little town falls into pieces and its inhabitants have to build their lives anew.

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Antoni Libera
Godot's Shadow

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Godot’s Shadow tells the story of the author’s fascination with Beckett and his attempts to understand the thought behind his work. It is a book about the ways in which literature can bring self-understanding and give meaning to one’s life, even if its message is one of doubt and despair; about the magic of literature and the vital role it can play.

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