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17 January 2022
Category: reviews
30 November 2021
BBC
Our new single, “Twitch”, is all over BBC Radio 6 Music! Thank you Lauren Lavern, Iggy Pop, Steve Lamacq and Marc Riley and Gideon Coe.
24 November 2021
Crops – Words Without Borders
The first review of “Crops” in “Words Without Borders” by Tobias Carroll:
“How do you address a legacy of genocide through art? Crops has a daunting task before it, and what makes these works particularly impressive is the way that Kwiatkowski’s stark use of language offers a sense of absence throughout the book. This is haunting work in more ways than one.”
5 November 2021
Clash magazine
Trupa Trupa Return With Mighty ‘Twitch’. Watch the hallucinogenic visuals…
31 October 2021
Imani Perry about “Crops”
Imani Perry, writer and professor at Princeton University commenting on “Crops”:
“I have found these poems to be emotionally compelling and profound. I expect fellow readers will enjoy this beautiful work”
28 October 2021
Richard Deming about “Crops”
Richard Deming, poet, art critic, and the Director of Creative Writing at Yale University, commenting on “Crops”:
“Grzegorz Kwiatkowski once said, “I think that we should be conscious about the evil that is inside every one of us.” In his collection Crops, Kwiatkowski’s taut, tense poems sound the depths of our darkest history. Masterfully rendered by Peter Constantine, one of our most brilliant translators, Crops reveals that the unforgettable is also the undeniable. Is it beautiful? I say it is powerfully necessary, unrelentingly direct. I say it burns.”
23 October 2021
Cynthia Zarin about “Crops”
The great writer Cynthia Zarin talks about “Crops”:
“In these searing, darkly beautiful, indelible poems, Kwiatkowski reminds us of what, at our peril, we must not forget.”
18 October 2021
3 Quarks Daily / Stanford University
“People in the know know him.” That’s what his English translator, Peter Constantine, told me. Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is becoming an important poetic voice from today’s Poland, with six volumes of poetry, and translated editions on the way. His translator added, “He has a strange poetic voice, very original and stark.”
16 October 2021
Sam Lipsyte about “Crops”
The great writer and post punk musician Sam Lipsyte talks about “Crops”:
“These poems are brutal, strangely exquisite, and, unfortunately, still necessary. With his words and his music and his relentless campaign of stark honesty and regenerative connection, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is a genuine glimmer of hope in a darkening world.”
30 August 2021
Haldern Pop Festival / Louder Than War
Ploughing up this Garden of Good Intentions, like some industrial digger carving through a site of special scientific interest, were Trupa Trupa. The four piece rock band from Gdansk have a formidable new record in the offing, and we got the odd number: poppier and more direct in approach.