Poland in Greece

After two years of online realization of the Festival, Patras is again glad to receive in person 65 important poets from 13 different countries, among them, two poetesses from Poland: Anna Adamowicz and Antonina Tosiek.

This year’s programme has in store many surprises for the participants and for the audience, with visits and poetry recitations in particular places and in alternative ways. The subject area of PWPF2022 concerns the healing properties of art and especially of poetry and it is entitled “From Hippocrates to poetry therapy”, so the complete action programme was planned with the purpose of creating a back – to - back interaction of arts, poetry and psychology.

Anna Adamowicz was born in Lubin, Poland, in 1993. She is a medical laboratory scientist, but also a poet and author of the following poetry volumes: Wątpia (2016), Animalia (2019), Nebula (2020), zmyśl[]zmysł (2021, as her alter ego Laura Osińska). She was nominated for the Gdynia Literary Prize for her debut poetry book Wątpia. She was nominated for the Cultural Award of Gazeta Wyborcza Journal WARTO twice (2020, 2021). She received the Wisława Szymborska Poetry Prize for her second poetry book Animalia. Her poems were published in numerous magazines at home and abroad and translated into Czech, English, Hungarian, Russian, Slovenian and Ukrainian. She took part in several literary events in Poland and two foreign festivals: Poetry Cork Festival in Ireland and PesText in Hungary. She lives and works in Wrocław, Poland.

Antonina Tosiek: Poet, literary and theater critic. Researcher of 20th-century folk diaries. Winner of the Student Nobel Prize in the Literature and Journalism category. Author of the debut poetry book "storytelling" (Biuro Literackie, 2021). PhD student at the UAM Doctoral School. Winner of over a dozen competitions and poetry awards.

The participation of Polish poetesses is supported by the Embassy of Poland in Athens.