TWO POLISH poets will read their works from a forthcoming anthology in Dublin next week.
Dariusz Suska and Maciej Wozniak will be reading from the collection Six Polish Poets: an Anthology (Part II) at the bilingual event, which takes place on Thursday 2 July at 7pm in the EU House at 18 Dawson Street.
Dariusz Suska was born in 1968 in Złotoryja, 90km west of Wrocław. He studied experimental physics at the universities of Wrocław and Warsaw, and information technology as a post-graduate, but he has not taken up either professionally.
Suska has published several books of poetry, of which Wszyscy nasi drodzy zakopani (All Our Dear Ones Buried, 2000) won an award from the Polish Society of Book Publishers and was nominated for the Nike Award. Another collection, Cała w piachu (Covered in Sand, 2004) was on the Nike shortlist.
His most recent book, Czysta ziemia (Pure Earth), appeared in February 2008. He lives in Warsaw with his wife Aneta, an author of a book about Japanese cinema, and their five-year-old daughter Natasza.
Maciej Woźniak, born in 1969, is a poet and music critic. His poetry books are Srebrny ołowek (Silver Pencil, 1998), Illuminacje. Zaćmienia. Szarość (Illuminations, Eclip-ses, Greyness, 2000), Obie strony Światła (Both Sides of the Light, 2003) and Wszystko jest cudze (Everything is Alien, 2005).
He has also published reviews, columns and essays on music in journals including Tygodnik Powszechny and the literary periodical Studium. He lives in PÅ‚ock.
