Miłosz Festival at Villa Decius
We invite you to the festival events at Villa Decius.
On 29 June, we invite you to Villa Decius, where the opening of this year's edition of the Milosz Festival and a series of poetry events will take place.
The slogan for this year's edition of the festival is both the title of a poetry volume by Czesław Miłosz published 25 years ago and the opening poem of this publication. In TO, we find the old poet's poignant confession about his inability to grasp certain aspects of reality. TO is the source of poetry and at the same time marks the impassable limit of the expressible. TO means encountering a stone wall, and understanding that this wall will not give way to any of our pleas.The ineffable paradoxically attracts the attention of poets striving to express it in language. Sometimes THIS is hidden under ecstatic praises of existence, images of unattainable idylls. It can emerge in an uncontrollable, silent scream or weave itself between the meanings of words naming more bearable things. At the Miłosz Festival, we will listen to poetry that nevertheless strives to capture the intangible.
PROGRAMME OF FESTIVAL EVENTS AT THE VILLA DECIJUSZA:
13:00 | Stone wall
In the poem THIS, Czeslaw Milosz writes about experiencing something that he does not undertake to name. Experiencing THIS is inevitable and constant, we are completely helpless in the face of it. However, the very fact of the author's poetic gesture proves that we are not deprived of all possibilities of action.
Moderation: Joanna Zach
Participating in the conversation will be Piotr Florczyk, Radosław Wiśniewski, Bohdan Zadura
14:30 | Poetry Celebrate. Readings and conversations. The premiere of the trilingual (Polish-German-Ukrainian) literary magazine ‘Radar’
The latest issue of RADAR is dedicated to the theme of POETRY. It features sets of poems by poets and poetesses from Poland, Germany and Ukraine, as well as discussions and texts on contemporary poetry from the three countries, as well as prose and essay texts and book recommendations of the most interesting titles from Poland, Germany and Ukraine.
The premiere meeting around the latest issue of RADAR will be attended by poet Tomasz Bak, Urszula Pieczek. translator from Ukrainian, Barbara Rojek, literary critic and Ukrainian poet Yuliya Stachivska.
During the meeting, the invited guests will discuss poetry, its translation, and how contemporary poetry tells us about today's world. We will also hear premiere poems by Tomasz Bąk and Yuliya Stakhivska (in three languages), which have been included in the new edition of RADAR.
16:00 | Krzysztof Lisowski. Memories of Czesław Miłosz
The meeting with Krzysztof Lisowski will be hosted by Professor Wojciech Ligęza. The event will be devoted to Lisowski's personal recollections of Czesław Miłosz (anecdotes, situations, joint activities). Poems inspired by the work of the Nobel Prize winner will also be presented.
17:00 | ‘dojczyzno moja’ - the premiere of Dagmara Kraus's book of poems.
Meeting with Dagmara Kraus on the occasion of the premiere of the volume ‘dojczyzno moja’ - the first selection of poems by Dagmara Kraus published in Polish in translation by Ryszard Wojnakowski.
Moderation: Joanna Mueller
18:00 | Meeting with nominees for the Wisława Szymborska Award
The meeting will be attended by: Urszula Honek, Stanisław Kalina Jaglarz, Ola Lewandowska, Antonina Tosiek, Joanna Żabnicka.
Moderated by Barbara Rojek
19:30 | Milosz? The battle for the world in recent poetry. A promotion of the literary magazine ‘Epea’ from Białystok
Anecdotes, structures, poetry therapies, models or politics as examples of poetry protected by the cape of social uptake contrasted with deep poetry, for which words are more like razors.
Guests: Piotr Janicki, Jacek Żebrowski
20:30 | Bohdan Zadura's Jubilee
Meeting with the poet and translator - Bohdan Zadura on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Moderation: Jarosław Borowiec, Magdalena Rabizo-Birek
* Free entrance tickets are available on www.kbfbilety.krakow.pl and via the KBF app: PLUS (available from 18 June 2025 from 12 noon).
See you at Villa Decius!
The slogan for this year's edition of the festival is both the title of a poetry volume by Czesław Miłosz published 25 years ago and the opening poem of this publication. In TO, we find the old poet's poignant confession about his inability to grasp certain aspects of reality. TO is the source of poetry and at the same time marks the impassable limit of the expressible. TO means encountering a stone wall, and understanding that this wall will not give way to any of our pleas.The ineffable paradoxically attracts the attention of poets striving to express it in language. Sometimes THIS is hidden under ecstatic praises of existence, images of unattainable idylls. It can emerge in an uncontrollable, silent scream or weave itself between the meanings of words naming more bearable things. At the Miłosz Festival, we will listen to poetry that nevertheless strives to capture the intangible.
PROGRAMME OF FESTIVAL EVENTS AT THE VILLA DECIJUSZA:
13:00 | Stone wall
In the poem THIS, Czeslaw Milosz writes about experiencing something that he does not undertake to name. Experiencing THIS is inevitable and constant, we are completely helpless in the face of it. However, the very fact of the author's poetic gesture proves that we are not deprived of all possibilities of action.
Moderation: Joanna Zach
Participating in the conversation will be Piotr Florczyk, Radosław Wiśniewski, Bohdan Zadura
14:30 | Poetry Celebrate. Readings and conversations. The premiere of the trilingual (Polish-German-Ukrainian) literary magazine ‘Radar’
The latest issue of RADAR is dedicated to the theme of POETRY. It features sets of poems by poets and poetesses from Poland, Germany and Ukraine, as well as discussions and texts on contemporary poetry from the three countries, as well as prose and essay texts and book recommendations of the most interesting titles from Poland, Germany and Ukraine.
The premiere meeting around the latest issue of RADAR will be attended by poet Tomasz Bak, Urszula Pieczek. translator from Ukrainian, Barbara Rojek, literary critic and Ukrainian poet Yuliya Stachivska.
During the meeting, the invited guests will discuss poetry, its translation, and how contemporary poetry tells us about today's world. We will also hear premiere poems by Tomasz Bąk and Yuliya Stakhivska (in three languages), which have been included in the new edition of RADAR.
16:00 | Krzysztof Lisowski. Memories of Czesław Miłosz
The meeting with Krzysztof Lisowski will be hosted by Professor Wojciech Ligęza. The event will be devoted to Lisowski's personal recollections of Czesław Miłosz (anecdotes, situations, joint activities). Poems inspired by the work of the Nobel Prize winner will also be presented.
17:00 | ‘dojczyzno moja’ - the premiere of Dagmara Kraus's book of poems.
Meeting with Dagmara Kraus on the occasion of the premiere of the volume ‘dojczyzno moja’ - the first selection of poems by Dagmara Kraus published in Polish in translation by Ryszard Wojnakowski.
Moderation: Joanna Mueller
18:00 | Meeting with nominees for the Wisława Szymborska Award
The meeting will be attended by: Urszula Honek, Stanisław Kalina Jaglarz, Ola Lewandowska, Antonina Tosiek, Joanna Żabnicka.
Moderated by Barbara Rojek
19:30 | Milosz? The battle for the world in recent poetry. A promotion of the literary magazine ‘Epea’ from Białystok
Anecdotes, structures, poetry therapies, models or politics as examples of poetry protected by the cape of social uptake contrasted with deep poetry, for which words are more like razors.
Guests: Piotr Janicki, Jacek Żebrowski
20:30 | Bohdan Zadura's Jubilee
Meeting with the poet and translator - Bohdan Zadura on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Moderation: Jarosław Borowiec, Magdalena Rabizo-Birek
* Free entrance tickets are available on www.kbfbilety.krakow.pl and via the KBF app: PLUS (available from 18 June 2025 from 12 noon).
See you at Villa Decius!