Poetry Club: Poems New and Collected, 1957–1997 by Wisława Szymborska

We will meet at the Gardeners Arms pub in Jericho, with a table booked in the garden.

We will discuss Poems New and Collected, 1957–1997, by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet, Wisława Szymborska .

Well-known in her native Poland, Wisława Szymborska received international recognition when she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. In awarding the prize, the Academy praised her “poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”

Readers of Szymborska’s poetry have often noted its wit, irony, and deceptive simplicity. Her poetry examines domestic details and occasions, playing these against the backdrop of history.