Polish literature

Adrian Sinkowski

(born 1984) – poet; librarian by education, copywriter by profession

Author of the volumes Raptularz (“Journal”, 2016) and Atropina ("Atropine", 2018) published in the series Library of "Topos". Awarded in the “Dolina Kreatywna” competition (2008), winner of the Połów project (2011), received nominations for the following literary awards: the Capital City of Warsaw Award (2017), Orpheus Award(2019), Mackiewicz Award (2019) and Norwid Award (2019). He debuted in 2005 in "Pogranicza" periodical, and since then, he has published in magazines such as "Arcana", "Dwutygodnik", "Kultura Liberalna", "Odra", "Twórczość", "Więź", "Zeszyty Literackie", as well as in "Tygodnik Powszechny" and "Uważam Rze". Editor, with time collaborator of the literary quarterly “Wyspa” (2007-2017). Scholarship holder of the Capital City of Warsaw (2013) and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2017) in the field of literature.

"But beyond that, there is something truly extraordinary in these poetic expeditions into the past, something that is connected with the mystery of existence, in which the spiritual dimension of the world is known through its physical shape.”
- Wojciech Kaliszewski

"I don't know how the poetic fate of Adrian Sinkowski will turn out, but in my eyes, he is one of the two or three best poets who have debuted in the last five years.”
- Janusz Drzewucki

"Because it's not a volume like many others. It is a well-thought-out and sublime construction. The history of poetry knows a lot of such beautiful forms, which, however, in the common opinion remain dead. Why is this one still alive, what special spirit enlivens and carries it? The spirit of confrontation between what there is and what there was.”
- Karol Maliszewski

"Sinkowski proves that our life happens in speaking, in language that is the span connecting bridges on the line there was – there will be. That we tell our story again and again, as if life grew out of it.”
- Bartosz Suwiński

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

  • „Raptularz”, Biblioteka Toposu, Sopot 2016. 
  • „Atropina”, Biblioteka Toposu, Sopot 2018. 
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