JERZY JARNIEWICZ

Jerzy Jarniewicz (b. 1958, Poland) is a Polish poet, translator and literary critic. He has published twelve volumes of poetry, thirteen critical books on contemporary Irish, British and American literature and has written extensively for various journals, including Poetry Review, Irish Review, Cambridge Review. His poetry has been translated into many languages and presented in international magazines, including Index on Censorship, Paris Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Oxford Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, and in The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry (1999). He is editor of the literary monthly Literatura na Swiecie (Warsaw) and has translated the work of many novelists and poets, including James Joyce, John Banville, Seamus Heaney, Raymond Carver, Philip Roth, Edmund White, Derek Walcott and Ursula Le Guin. His most recent works are two anthologies Six Irish Women Poets (2012) and British Women Poets (2015), which he selected and translated. He is also the author of two books on the counterculture in the Sixties. Confiscarea instrumentelor [Confiscating the Instruments] is a selection of his poems translated into Romanian by Constantin Geambasu and published by Tracus Arte in 2019.