Music is the motif which underlies the poems in Marius Kociejowski's second book. In Dinu Lipatti plays Chopin's Sonata in B minor, a musical theme illustrates the solitude of a troubled woman who is no man's, only music's bride'; elsewhere, music is the link in the relationship between the dying Chopin and George Sand. Other poems explore tenderness and the origins of violence. Marius Kociejowski is a poet of high intelligence and accomplishment, with a gift for historical empathy and a voice entirely his own. Marius Kociejowski was born in 1949 and lives in London. His Greville Press...
Music is the motif which underlies the poems in Marius Kociejowski's second book. In Dinu Lipatti plays Chopin's Sonata in B minor, a musical t...
"Zoroaster's Children "brings together the best of Marius Kociejowski's travel writing. A companion volume to last year's critically acclaimed "The Pebble Chance," these essays, conceived somewhere between "a waning moon and the nerves behind a flayed man's face," evince the deep absorption in a people and place which are the hallmark of great travel writers.
Marius Kociejowski is the award-winning author of four collections of poetry, two celebrated travel memoirs, and a collection of his best essays, "The Pebble Chance." He lives and works as...
Longlisted for the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize
"Zoroaster's Children "brings together the best of Marius Kociejowski's travel writing. A companion volu...