Days of Poetry & Wine »Grand Poetry Reading with Tomasz Różycki«
Moderators: Tilen Kolar and Tomi Petek
Participants
Aifric Mac Aodha (IRL), Jordi Julià (ESP), Tomasz Różycki (POL), Nataša Velikonja (SVN), Selahattin Yolgiden (TUR)
Tomasz Różycki (1970) is a Polish poet, translator, and university lecturer. He has published eight poetry collections, most notably the long, epic Twelve Stations, for which he was awarded the highest Polish literary honour for young authors. He has since received several other awards for his work and has been translated into numerous languages. He is also an established translator of Stéphane Mallarmé and Arthur Rimbaud.
The contemporary Polish poet Tomasz Różycki is known amongst readers and critics for his relatively strong poetic form, which he introduced in several poetry collections. His rhythmic poetry often refers to the literary tradition of the sonnet, but also to humour, irony, and the grotesque. However, it is not just an image and shape of the past, but a mirror for the present, where the contemporary man travels and dreams about art. Różycki is a different contemporary poetic voice – his lyrical meditations on solitude, love, and poetry interwoven with the past, tradition, and memories are enhanced with allusions to Polish literary traditions. In his Slovenian release, the poet will introduce himself with his own selection of his quarter-century-long poetic opus.
Days of Poetry and Wine, one of the most prominent Central European poetry festivals, successfully unites poetry with enology. Every year in the last warm August days the festival hosts over twenty poets from all over the world along with selected domestic winemakers. Korean phenomenon Ko Un, American poet C. D. Wright and Swedish nominee for the Nobel Prize Lars Gustafsson are just some of the 500 prominent names of past festivals. The main emphasis – poetry and wine – is accompanied by a thoughtfully made programme in the field of music, visual, photography, film and other arts for all ages and interests.
