The poetic voice of the MTV generation; his collection "Wild Children" was awarded the 1995 "Czas Kultury" Prize as the year's best first collection of poetry.
The poetic voice of the MTV generation, he was born in Knurów in 1977 and lives in Gliwice. Krzysztof Siwczyk is studying Culture at the University of Silesia. His collection Wild Children was awarded the 1995 "Czas Kultury" Prize as the year's best first collection of poetry.
The poet describes and poetically enriches the space in which he grew up, neither disguising his age nor flaunting his youth. Particularly striking is the presence and absence of God, who is an object neither of negation nor of adoration, but the source of all adult conflict. The world presented in Wild Children - a city built in the 1970s and consisting of box-like, cheap housing blocks full of living spaces like cages and studded with terrifyingly symmetrical balconies, peeling plaster and reeking basements - has been waiting for its poet. Siwczyk knows that world from the inside out, free of inherited emotions and prejudices. He is the natural and melancholy child of this world. His melancholy seems devoid of complaint or even an atom of hysteria. Siwczyk steers clear of historical baggage and social or political wrongs.Wild Children is written with stunning craft and distinct outlines that create tension when juxtaposed with the colloquial language of most of the poems. The poems that Siwczyk has since published in journals show an evolution of form that is less descriptive but more economical and richer in the consciousness of its own nature.
"Poems are necessary above all to those who write them. If anyone reads them, that's a miraculous shock, but nothing more." (Krzysztof Siwczyk)
Bibliography:
- Dzikie dzieci (Wild Children). 1995.
- Emil i My (Emil and Us). Gladyszów: Czarne, 1999.
- Dane dni, Legnica 2001
- Wiersze dla palących, Instytut Mikołowski 2001
- Zdania z treścią, Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2003
- W państwie środka, BL Wrocław 2005
- List otwarty. Wiersze zebrane 1995-2005, BL Wrocław 2006
- Centrum likwidacji szkód, BL Wrocław, 2008
Source: www.polska2000.pl, Copyright: Stowarzyszenie Willa Decjusza; Bibliography updated: 2009