Literature
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April in Brwinów
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As a child, I felt wounded by early spring. The season had an obvious delicacy and allure, but in a way that intensified instead of diminished its agony—the author speaks of spring.
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Obligations
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The poem is pretty self-evident. But beneath what’s universal in it, there’s something more prosaic and individual.
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Sorrowbalm
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In London's Kew Gardens, I saw flowers from South Africa, from a region often ravaged by fires—poet Krystyna Dąbrowska comments on her poem, Sorrowbalm
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And you don’t know what will sprout
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The author wrote this poem "in a smoky room on one of those evenings when you look in vain for the light and hold on to the one bright spot in whichever corner with the hope that it will get bigger."
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*William Shakespeare
*William Shakespeare
New Verse by Once-Famous Poets
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A poem written in the style of the famous English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
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*Rainer Maria Rilke
*Rainer Maria Rilke
New Verse by Once-Famous Poets
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A poem written in the style of the famous Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
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*Anna Akhmatova
*Anna Akhmatova
New Verse by Once-Famous Poets
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A poem written in the style of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
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*Jorge Luis Borges
*Jorge Luis Borges
New Verse by Once-Famous Poets
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A poem written in the style of the famous Argentine writer (and poet) Jorge Luis Borges.
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Non-Fiction
Alone in the Bosom of Nature
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It is often said that Sweden is a ‘loners’ paradise’, but there is more to this than meets the eye. How, for example, is the Swedish concept of ‘solitude’ connected with time spent in nature?
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Stanisław Lem
137 Seconds (Part I)
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“137 Seconds” is a short story by Polish sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem, translated into English for the first time by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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Stanisław Lem
137 Seconds (Part II)
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“137 Seconds” is a short story by Polish sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem, translated into English for the first time by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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Stanisław Lem
137 Seconds (Part III)
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“137 Seconds” is a short story by Polish sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem, translated into English for the first time by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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Non-Fiction
My Three Wishes
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In 1980, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem was asked by a German publisher to list his three most personal wishes. He reveals them in this exclusive translation.
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The Hunt
short story
The Hunt
Stanisław Lem’s Unknown Story
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Racing across mountains and remote backwoods, a solitary figure is on the run from a team of heavily armed hunters. Will he manage to get away? Antonia Lloyd-Jones's translation of a previously unknown story by the great master of science fiction.
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A Typescript Found in a Folder
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A previously unknown short story by science fiction author Stanisław Lem was recently discovered in his archives. A literary scholar discusses how “The Hunt” remained hidden for so long, and what the story might mean.
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How Did We Discover Stanisław Lem’s Unpublished Short Story?
How Did We Discover Stanisław Lem’s Unpublished Short Story?
The Origins of “The Hunt”
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How did we find a previously unpublished short story of Stanisław Lem, one of the most celebrated Polish writers of all time?
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deep soundings
Weather this
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“Hello day, I wanted to talk to you about the weather,/ though I never stop talking about it in blood and breath.” A poem by a contemporary British poet.
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Julia
Fiedorczuk
Fiedorczuk
An Introduction to Zoë Skoulding’s “Weather this”
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Zoë Skoulding’s poem “Weather this” is both playful and serious, teasing out a meditation on how we perceive the natural world.
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Fiction
And Now, a Legend...
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An old legend about a knight and a blacksmith, told as a short fairy tale by a much-loved Polish children’s author.
