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Tomasz Różycki

Colonies
Kolonie

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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

About the author:

Tomasz Różycki, born in 1970, is a poet and translator living in Opole, Poland. To date, he has published four collections of poems to great acclaim: Vaterland (1997), Anima (1999), Chata umaita (2001) and Świat i antyświat (2003), as well as the long epic poem Dwanaście stacji (2004), for which he was awarded the Kościelski Prize, the most prestigious literary prize for Polish writers under forty. He has participated in Literaturexpress Europa 2000, the Krakow-Houston Summer Poetry Seminar (2004), and other international poetry festivals. His poems have been translated into German, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian, and published in anthologies of modern Polish poetry in Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Germany.

Also by this author:

Twelve Stations