The poetry of Cyprian Norwid (1821-83) by JERZY PETERKIEWICZ who also translated the poems in collaboration with BURNS SINGEH and CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE Cyprian Norwid died 100 years ago at a home for destitute
Polish exiles in Paris. lenored. misunderstoodorridiculed during his lifetime. his beat work unpublished, he was rediscovered at the beginning of this century and is now recognised as one of the most original minds in Polish literature.
Bitter bread is Polishnea. How eager they all an to die /or liberty, as if the cemetery alone could be called free.
Readers GABRIEL WOOLF and BARBARA LETGHHUNT
Polish reader JERZYPETERKIEWTCZ Narrator BRETT USHER
Directed by JOHN TIFLOCHARIS (Barbara Leigh-Hunt is appearing in Pack of Lies at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London)