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English-Polish volume of 27 poems by Anna
Blasiak with 27 photographs by Lisa Kalloo
It isn't exaggeration to say Deliverance is pioneering; it is a book of design,
of illustration, a collaboration built upon a dynamic exchange across mediums;
a collection of photopoetry, of image and poem, each elevating the other; all
speaking with immediacy to what can be gleaned from personal experience. - SJ Fowler, poet, writer, organiser of
European Poetry Festival in the UK
Anna
Blasiak's poetry book has kicked me where it
hurts. These are moving poems about discrimination on many levels, but also
about love and finding oneself. Deliverance is a liberation, an unmasking, beautifully complemented
by Lisa Kalloo's photographic collages. - Wioletta Greg, poet, novelist, longlisted
for the Man Booker International Prize (2017) and shortlisted to the Griffin
Poetry Prize (2015)
A
series of poems about growing up queer in Poland in the 1980s. Deliverance
has a narrative angle and explores themes of gender identity, LGBTQ rights,
coming out, homophobia, women's rights etc, at the same time being mainly based
on the author's family/societal history/background. The book has been written
bilingually, in Polish and in English. The idea is that a reader can read each
poem in either of the languages or in both of them simultaneously. The author
has been exploring different techniques to achieve this result: mirroring,
intertwining, playing on sounds in both languages. This is her attempt of
showing the reality of somebody living between the languages, sometimes
stretched between them - of somebody who, originally from Poland, has
lived in the UK for over 20 years and who, as a translator, works in both of
those languages on everyday basis.
