The Polish Book Institute

Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poem entitled Sentence, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published in July in “The New Yorker”, appeared on the list of the best poems of 2019, drawn up by this prestigious magazine.

You can read the translation of the poem here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/sentence

The list of the best poems published this year in The New Yorker can be found here:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2019-in-review/our-year-in-poems

This is not the poet's first award within these pages. In 2014, the magazine published and praised his poem People Exchange Words (also translated by Lloyd-Jones):

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/31/people-exchange-words