A collection of essays predominantly concerned with modern poetry, with problems of translating poetry, and with the relationship between poetry and philosophy. There is also some material dealing with music, the visual arts and religious belief.
Adam Czerniawski was born in 1934 in Warsaw. Now lives in Wales. Successively, worked in journalism, taught philosophy, administered The British Centre for Literary Translation at The University of East Anglia and The Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in Scotland. Publications in Polish include poetry, fiction and essays; publications in English include a memoir Scenes from a disturbed childhood, essays, The Invention of Poetry (translated by Iain Higgins) published by Salt, and translations of Polish poetry, drama and philosophy.
