Chopin Festival 2024 (3rd Edition)

The popular Chopin Festival returns to POSK for its 3rd edition, offering a host of captivating events including a gala concert, a jazz performance, an exhibition and talks.
19 10.2024 Events, Music, News

“To the Letter” Poetry Collection by Tomasz Różycki

Translated by Mira Rosenthal. Published by Archipelago Books, January 2024. Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love - Różycki's To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair
09 01.2024 Books, Events, Literature

“Queen Cells” Poetry Collection by Małgorzata Lebda

Translated by Ela Wójcik-Leese. Published by Broken Sleep Books, August 2024. Queen Cells recounts – from early spring to another spring – the ‘work in blood’ of one family and one small village: Żeleźnikowa Wielka, in the Beskid Mountains of southern Poland, where Małgorzata Lebda grew up
31 08.2024 Books, Events, Literature

JAZZ JAM SESSION @ POSK – 6TH OCTOBER 2024

Another edition of the popular Jazz Jam Session at POSK studio with a chance to meet and perform with professional musicians from the London jazz scene as well as emerging stars.
06 10.2024 Events, Music

Small Academy of Jazz in London

Europe's oldest initiative for informal jazz education, which has inspired youth in Poland for 40 years, will be held in London for the first time!
06 10.2024 Events, Music

“A Calligraphy of Days” Poetry collection by Krzysztof Siwczyk

Translated by Piotr Florczyk and Alice-Catherine Carls. Verses that oscillate between the turmoil of post-communist Eastern Europe to understated reflections on grief and mortality. Published by Seagull Books, August 2024.
05 08.2024 Books, Events, Literature

“Warsaw Tales”, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones – Published September 2024

An anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city's tumultuous and dramatic history. Selected and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, ed. Helen Constantine. Published by Oxford University Press.
12 09.2024 Books, Events, Literature, News

Applications Open – National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentorships 2024/2025

A new edition of the prestigious Mentorship Programme for aspiring literary translators including those working between Polish and English. Deadline 26th August 2024.
27 07.2024 26 08.2024 Events, Literature, News

“Czernovitz – Charmovitz” by Aneta Kamińska

Translated by Anna Blasiak & Bohdan Piasecki, published by Arc Publications, July 2024, the book presents a selection of Kamińska’s own poetry from across the years.
01 07.2024 Books, Events, Literature