“Czernovitz – Charmovitz” by Aneta Kamińska

Translated by Anna Blasiak & Bohdan Piasecki and published in July 2024 by Arc Publications, “Czernovitz – Charmovitz” is an English-language translation of poetry by Aneta Kamińska.

Aneta Kamińska is a Polish poet, author of eight volumes of poetry. She has a wonderful ear for language and her specialty is poetry brimming with linguistic games. She is also a prolific translator of contemporary Ukrainian poets. This new translation presents a selection of Kamińska’s own poetry from across the years.

“Through the fracturing of language, with word and sound-play or othertimes a deceptive simplicity, Kamińska’s poems pull us up short with their visceral honesty. Whether she is writing about the female body, a Jewish cemetery, the pandemic or the invasion of Ukraine, her poems are at once fierce and intimate. She is a unique voice which cannot be ignored, its freshness and immediacy discovered and relayed to us in ingenious ways by her translators.” – Maria Jastrzębska.