Published: 2022-07-14

Poetry in the Circle of the Polish Publishing Fund: Chronicle, Archive, Patronage, and Discoveries

Bożena Szałasta-Rogowska Logo ORCID
Section: ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS, MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.29.09

Abstract

In this article, Bożena Szałasta-Rogowska focuses on the work and achievements of the Polish Publishing Fund (PFW) in Canada, an institution that has been dynamically active on the cultural forum for over 40 years, publishing books and organizing various types of meetings and events promoting Polish literature abroad. PFW is an association which shapes the cultural and literary life of the Polish emigration community in Canada. Szałasta-Rogowska identifies and presentsthe most important poetic publications among the achievements of PFW. She mainly analyzes books of poetry published by PFW both independently or in cooperation with domestic partners. Among them, two anthologies deserve special attention: Seven Polish Canadian Poets and Antologia poezji polskiej na obczyźnie 1939–1999 [Anthology of Polish Poetry Abroad 1939–1999] and poems by so-called “Canadian Continenters” (Bogdan Czaykowski, Florian Śmieja and Andrzej
Busza) and poets of the post-Solidarity emigration (e.g., Marek Kusiba, Edward Zyman and Grażyna Zambrzycka). This review and description of poetic publications given in this article, combined with a brief historical outline, shows that PFW is not only a publisher, but also a chronicler, an archiver, a patron of the arts and finally a “discoverer” of poetic talents.

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Szałasta-Rogowska, B. (2022). Poetry in the Circle of the Polish Publishing Fund: Chronicle, Archive, Patronage, and Discoveries. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 29(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.29.09

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Vol. 29 No. 1 (2022)
Published: 2022-09-09


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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