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W samą porę,
single work
interview
(p. 22-23)
An interview conducted by Irena Leszczyńska with Polish Australian Gertruda Łukaszewicz about her memoir Moja emigracja [My Emigration] (2000).
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Moja emigracja,
single work
extract
(p. 23-25)
An excerpt from Gertruda Łukaszewicz's memoir, Moja emigracja [My Emigration] (AgArt, 2000).
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Tylko las...,
single work
short story
(p. 26-28)
A short story narrated in the voice of an elderly Polish huntsman who lives in the forest, and can't imagine living anywhere else. The story is about his childhood an adult memories of life in the forest.
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Lily Brett i Polska,
single work
essay
(p. 29-34)
An essay reflecting on the representation of Poles and Poland in Lily Brett's Too Many Men. Rydzynska writes of finding the depictions of Poles in Brett's book upsetting, but also engages positively with Brett's work, arguing that Polish readers need to be open to Brett's writing.
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Billabong - poezja australijska,
single work
essay
(p. 37-38)
Ludwika Amber discusses the recent anthology of Australian poetry, translated into Polish, Billabong - poezja australijska (2001), which she edited.
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Stary Miłoszi"stoi pred domem w Kalifornii",
single work
poetry
(p. 44)
A poem about the Polish Nobel-prize-winning poet, Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004), who defected from Communist Poland to the West in 1951, and from 1961 to 1998 was a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Miłosz's family was Lithuanian and he was born and grew up in Lithuania.
