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Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese writes with/in English, Polish and Danish. Her visual poetry publications include preter/natural appetite for chalk (intergraphia, 2025) and convers(at)ion: sea fog chalk (Essence Press, 2024). Among her Polish poetry translations are: Song at Half Past Three (Wojciech Bonowicz; Literary Waves, 2026), Night Truck Driver (Marcin Świetlicki; Zephyr Press, 2020; longlisted for the 2021 PEN America Poetry in Translation Award longlist, finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Translation.); Salt Monody (Marzanna Kielar; Zephyr Press, 2006). She co-curates and runs ‘Transreading’ courses on translocal and hybrid poetries for the Poetry School in London. Her site-specific verbal and visual texts, often zines and artists’ books, use botanical inkmaking, cyanotype, pinhole photography and expressive handwriting. IG: @elzbietawojcikleese

By Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Two Poems

by Roman Honet

Translated by

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

a woman was carrying a bundle,
in the bundle were dead children
and a wooden head, a memento.
a wooden bell. at times what you need to know about a dream

Summer 2026

Four Poems

by Małgorzata Lebda

Translated by

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

translated from the Polish Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese fire: cleansing into the lid of a big jar father pours methylated spirits lets me set it on fire over the flame he singes the cold body of a duck heart or liver? he asks though he knows that mother will save the liver for me apparently thanks

Winter 2021

Four Poems

by Wojciech Bonowicz

Translated by

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese Second bell Hens are for the motherland ducks are against. And the dog is divided. For a moment he turns his bloodshot eyes to the sky. Then his gaze drops to the road again. In dust up to his armpits comes a toothless man who likes to tease. As

Spring 2021

night truck driver

by Marcin Świetlicki

Translated by

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

This piece is part of our Fall/Winter 2020 print issue. Translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Winter 2020 Print Issue

first snow

by Marcin Świetlicki

Translated by

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

This piece is part of our Fall/Winter 2020 print issue. Translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Winter 2020 Print Issue

aha

by Marcin Świetlicki

Translated by

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

This piece is part of our Fall/Winter 2020 print issue. Translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Winter 2020 Print Issue

from Anaglyphs

by Krystyna Miłobędzka

Translated by

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

This piece is part of our Fall 2019 print issue. Translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Fall 2019 Print Issue

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