POLISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Janusz A. Ihnatowicz (1929 - )
  Displeasure. London: Poets and Painters Press. 1975.
  8 Poems. The Polish Review 48.4 (Autumn 2003). Polish and English.

• "The Housemaid Returns from Market." 485.
• "Lament." 484.
• "The Old Canon at High Mass." 484-485.
• "One Day in the Life of a Dog on a Chain." 485.
• "Paradise Lost." 483.
• "A Song for the Ugly." 484.
• "To Be Like a Child." 483.
• "Winter." 485.

  10 Poems. Trans. Janusz A. Ihnatowicz. Seven Polish Canadian Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Wacław Iwaniuk and Florian Śmieja. Toronto: Polish Canadian Publishing Fund. 1984. Polish and English.

• "Canadiana." 152-155.
• "Children at the Window." 164-165.
• "Cupid Flying By." 160-161.
• "In Search of a Lost Home." 150-151.
• "Internal Landscape." 162-163.
• "Invocation." 143.
• "Monsignor Meditating." 146-147.
• "Monuments in the Jardin de Luxembourg." 144-145.
• "Murmuring Tree." 156-159.
• "Threnos." 148-149.

Lech Isakiewicz (1943 - )
  "Preparations for a Journey." Trans. Sylvester Domański. The New Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Collection. Ed. Milne Holton and Paul Vangelisti. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P. 1978. 108-109.

Wacław Iwaniuk (1912- 2001)
  2 Poems. In: Mieczysław Giergielewicz, "Polish Exile Poetry," Queens Slavic Papers, vol. 1. Ed. Thomas E. Bird and others. Flushing, NY: Queens College Press. 1973. In English and Polish.

• "Don't Touch Me, I'm Full of Snakes!" Trans. not identified. 48.
• "From the Height of the Tenth Floor." Trans. not identified. 47.

  10 Poems. Seven Polish Canadian Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Wacław Iwaniuk and Florian Śmieja. Toronto: Polish Canadian Publishing Fund. 1984. Polish and English.

• "All That Is Mine." Trans. Zbigniew Folejewski. 82-83.
• "Après le Déluge." Trans. Gustaw Linke. 48-49.
• "Elegy in a Toronto Cemetery." Trans. Jagna Boraks and John Robert Colombo. 70-77.
• "Having Read Kierkegaard." Trans. Gustaw Linke. 52-53.
• "Medicine Then and Now." Jagna Boraks. 78-79.
• "One Day in the City of Toronto Magistrate's Court." Trans. Stanley Kunitz. 84.
• "Spaceship Apollo 15." Trans. Jagna Boraks. 60-69.
• "Sylvia Plath." Trans. Jagna Boraks. 50-51.
• "they Say I Do not Suffer." Trans. Jagna Boraks. 80-81.
• "Two Cities." Trans. Gustaw Linke. 54-59.

  Dark Times: Selected Poems of Wacław Iwaniuk. Trans. Jagna Boraks and others. Ed. John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Hounslow Press. 1979.
  Evenings on Lake Ontario: From my Canadian Diary. Toronto: Hounslow Press. 1981.
  "Elegy in a Toronto Cemetery Accompanied by Some Words on Dying": fragment. Trans. Jagna Boraks and John Robert Colombo. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 158.

Renata Jabłońska (1935 - )
No English translations of her work appear to be available at this time.

Marian Jachimowicz (1906-1999)
  2 Poems. Trans. Iwona Gleb. The New Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Collection. Ed. Milne Holton and Paul Vangelisti. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P. 1978.

• "Echo." 16-17.
• "Slopes." 16-17.

Wojciech Jagielski (1960 - )
  "Zaire - Rwanda: Crime and Punishment." Trans. not identified. Donajski's Digital Gallery.
  The Night Wanderers: Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. New York: Seven Stories Press. 2012.
  Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya. Trans. Soren A. Gauger. New York: Seven Stories Press. 2009.

Marcin Jagodziński (1971 - )
  "Third Rail." Trans. Frank L. Vigoda. Perihelion. 5.1 (2005).

Genevieve Jakubowska-Fijałkowska (1946- )
  "Three Poems from Strawberry Aftertaste / Ostateczny Smak Truskawek." Trans. Marek Kazmierski. The White Review. Polish and English. 3 Dec. 2012.

• "Greenery is green. . ."
• "Patron saint . . ."
• "You will . . ."

   5 Poems from Of Me a Worm and of the Worm Verses. Trans. Marek Kazmierski. Emigrating Landscapes.

• "As You Are Making Love to Him." 2.
• "The Frequency of Blood." 4.
• "A Love Story on the Eastern Border." 3.
• "November." 6.
• "We Jew Women." 5.

   14 Poems from The End Taste of Strawberries. Trans. Marek Kazmierski. OFF_Press.

• "Come . . ." 3.
• "The first . . ." 16.
• "Forgive me . . ." 10.
• "From the terminal . . ." 11.
• "Greenery is green . . ." 4.
• "I covered you . . ." 7.
• "On fire . . ." 13.
• "She-patron . . ." 6.
• "There will be . . ." 5.
• "This is how to waste away . . ." 14.
• "Women . . ." 8.
• "You couldn't . . ." 9.
• "You excrete . . ." 15.
• "You will . . ." 12.

  Of Me a Worm and of the Worm Verses. Trans. Marek Kazmierski. London: OFF Press. 2012. Polish and English.
   "Screw Poet." Trans. Marek Kazmierski. OFF_Press. English and Polish.
  "We Jew Women." Trans. Marek Kazmierski. Poems for Pussy Riot. EnglishPEN. 13 Sept. 2012.

Jan Janiak (1941- )
  Untitled ("I don't know . . ."). Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 159.

Anna Janko (1957 - )
  2 Poems. Trans. not identified [Regina Grol?]. The Dirty Goat. 7(1995). [Click on the highlighted text under Anna Janko's name at the bottom of the page to access the poems.]

• "At the Threshold Which Remained."
• "When Autumn's Home, Close the Shutters."

  5 Works. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.
  5 Poems. Trans. Regina Grol. Ambers Aglow: An Anthology of Contemporary Polish Women's Poetry. Ed. Regina Grol. Austin, TX: Host Publications. 1996. Polish and English.

• "The Alphabet." 152-153.
• "At the Threshold Which Remained." 146-147.
• "That Good Old Woman." 150-151.
• "A Tryptych with the Universe." 142-145.
• "When Autumn's Home, Close the Shutters." 148-149.

Grzegorz Janusz (1970 - )
  Essence: excerpt. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.

Jerzy Jarniewicz (1958 - )
  3 Poems. Trans. Zoe Skoulding. Edinburgh Review. Special issue: "Made in Poland: New Writing from Poland." 121 (2007).

• "Generation Relay." 54.
• "Nansen Passport." 53.
• "Two and Three Zeros." 52.

  5 Poems. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.
  "Covering Your Traces." Trans. David Malcolm. Brindin Press. Text in Polish and English.

Tomasz Jastrun (1950 - )
  4 Poems. Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. Ed. Carolyn Forché. New York: Norton. 1993.

• "Hat." Trans. Daniel Bourne. 484.
• "The Polish Knot." Trans. Michael March and Jarosław Anders. 483.
• "Scrap." Trans. Daniel Bourne. 483.
• "The Seed." Trans. Michael March and Jarosław Anders. 482.

  6 Poems. Child of Europe: A New Anthology of East European Poetry. Ed. Michael March. New York: Penguin. 1990.

• "Fruit." Trans. Michael March and Jarosław Anders. 40.
• "Hat." Trans. Daniel Bourne. 38.
• "Nothing." Trans. Michael March and Jarosław Anders. 39.
• "The Polish Knot." Trans. Michael March and Jarosław Anders. 36.
• "Scrap." Trans. Daniel Bourne. 37.
• "The Seed." Trans. Michael March and Jarosław Anders. 35.

  8 Poems. Trans. Daniel Bourne. Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Ed. Walter Cummins. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson U P. 1993.

• "The Captive Dream." 303-304.
• "Chasm." 300.
• "Fatherland." 302.
• "Fire." 302.
• "Power." 301.
• "Prose." 301.
• "Silence." 301.
• "A Single Drop." 303.

  "The Green Banner." Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 165.
  On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe. Trans. Daniel Bourne. Anchorage, AK: Salmon Run Press. 1999.

Maria Jastrzębska (1953 - )
  3 Poems. Poetry International.

•   "Dementia Diaries."
•   "Holy Night."
•   "Think About It."

  At the Library of Memories. Hove, UK: Waterloo Press. 2013.
  "Europa." Poetry P F.
  Everyday Angels. Hove, UK: Waterloo Press. 2009.
  Home from Home. Birmingham, UK: Flarestack. 2002.
  "I'll Be Back Before You Know It." Poetry P F.
  I'll Be Back before You Know It. Brighton, UK: Pighog Press. 2009.
  Maria's Poetry Blog: Random Thoughts, Profound Things.
  Postcards from Poland and Other Correspondences. London: Working Press. 1991.
  Syrena. Frizinghall, UK: Redbeck Press. 2004.

Krzysztof Jaworski (1966 - )
   "I Used to be a Slender Guy." Trans. Piotr Szymor and Rod Mengham. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006).

Konstanty A. Jeleński (1922-1987)
  "Avant-garde and Revolution." Trans. Michael Kott with Tara McKelvey. Four Decades of Polish Essays. Ed. Jan Kott. Evanston, IL: Northwestern U P. 1990. 115-129.

Aleksander Jurewicz (aka "jota," O [Olek] Łapian, Oleg Kazanow, AJ) (1952 - )
  8 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.

• "1952."
• "An Application for an Extension of Life."
• "Clouds over Lida."
• "Haemoglobin."
• "The Interiors of our Homes."
• "Lida."
• "Not in Time."
• "Suddenly."

  8 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Young Poets of a New Poland: An Anthology. Lincoln Centre, MA: Forest Books. 1993.

• "1952." 34.
• "An Application for an Extension of Life." 32.
• "Clouds over Lida." 41.
• "Haemoglobin." 31.
• "The Interiors of our Homes." 30.
• "Lida." 38-40.
• "Not in Time." 33.
• "Suddenly." 35-37.

  Lida: excerpts. Trans. Ela Kotkowska-Atkinson. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000): 150-162.

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