Poland
Maria Jasnorzewska-Pawlikowska
translation
by Marek Lugowski,
Maria Jasnorzewska-Pawlikowska
(1891-1945) was one of the all-time greats of Polish poetry. Between
the world wars, she was considered an ally of the noted Polish
poetry group, "Skamander". In 1935 she received the Golden
Laurel from the Polish Academy of Literature. At the onset
of German occupation, in September 1939, she left for England
through Rumania and France with her husband, an officer of air
force. She died in Manchester shortly after the war. The poem
"Barwy" is from her first collection of poems, "Niebieskie
Migdaly" (literally, "Blue Almonds"; idiomatically,
"Fancy Moon-junes" or "Idle Musings").
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