Urszula Chowaniec is a senior teaching fellow in Polish at University College in London and a professor at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University. She is also the author of Melancholic Migrating Bodies: Polish Contemporary Women’s Writing (Cambridge Scholars, 2015).
It is not easy to be a poet; certainly not when you live away from the language in which you feel, see, and analyze everything around you. Emigration isn’t easy for poets, who live to seize the world…