“and”. The premiere of the book and a meeting with the author Julia Fiedorczuk.

September 23, 2026
The publishing house Karakter and Pardon, To Tu invite you to the Warsaw premiere of Julia Fiedorczuk's book “i”. The conversation with the author will be led by Katarzyna Kasia.
Info: Date: Wednesday, 7.10.2026 Start: 18:00 Free admission Address: Pardon, To Tu; Aleja Armii Ludowej 14; 00-637 Warsaw
Written with great pomp and sensitivity, the book is an attempt to look at poetry as a certain way of experiencing the world and being in the world, where poetics is understood broadly here — as a certain aspect of human communication practices.
Drawing from her experience as a reader, writer and translator, as well as her extensive knowledge of world cultures, psychoanalysis and neurobiology, the author proves that poetry is not something separate from the body, sensuality and the Earth. On the contrary, it is a tool that allows us to take root in reality and to rediscover ourselves as sentient beings. It has subversive and emancipatory potential — it resists the practices of commodification of attention, deepens our capacity for perception.
Following the trail of reflections, associations and readings of the author, we will learn a lot about literature, and even more about ourselves. We will read, for example, about the relationship that occurs between the “way of being in the language” and the “way of being in the world”; about what we have lost in the course of natural-cultural evolution, and about what mark in our brains has been left by writing; about how we can hear with the skin, and about how the chemical composition of our tears changes depending on the reason for which we pay. We will learn about the benefits of poetry for people operating in war conditions. Julia Fiedorczuk generously shares with us her knowledge and intimate experience of the world. Her feisty, separate, Weinberger spirit and at the same time discreetly political essay gives hope that as long as we have poetry and instead of “either or” we can still choose “and”, all is not lost.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Writer, poet, translator and lecturer at the University of Warsaw. In her work, she explores the relationship between people and their planetary environment and highlights the world-making power of literature. She has published collections of short stories and novels, including “Under the Sun” (2020) and “House of Orion” (2023), as well as six volumes of poems, the last of which is “Glyph” (2024). She is also the author of essay books (including “Cyborg in the Garden: An Introduction to Ecocriticism”) and numerous texts in the popular and popular science press. Nominated for the NIKE Award (2016), the Warsaw Literary Award (2021) and — twice — for the Julian Tuwim Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2020, 2023), winner of the Wisława Szymborska Prize for the volume “Psalms” (2018). “Oxygen”, a selection of her poems translated by Bill Johnston, was included in the list of books nominated for the National Translation Award in the United States (2016). She has performed at many international literary festivals in Poland and around the world. Her texts have been translated into more than twenty languages, including English, German, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.