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Wojciech Bonowicz is the author of eight poetry collections and numerous books of criticism. His texts and poems appeared in English translation in variety of magazines, including  Asymptote and Modern Poetry in Translation. Songs at Half Past Three and Other Poems<\/em> is his first book in English, a compilation of original, thought-provoking poems touching on important questions of human existence.

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\u2018If initially Bonowicz\u2019s poems seem surreal or playful, they quickly reveal themselves to be sharp splinters of philosophy, as discomfiting as they are absorbing.’\u2028<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Sasha Dugdale<\/p>\n\n\n\n



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