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Patryk Kosenda

(b. 1993) – poet, editor, graphic novel writer, social activist.

He has published two poetry collections: “Robodramy w zieleniakach” (Robodramas at the Greengrocers’, 2019) and “Największy na świecie drewniany coaster” (The World’s Largest Wooden Coaster, 2021). The latter volume was nominated for the Gdynia Literary Prize (2022). Since 2018 he has been the editor-in-chief of the culture portal “Stoner Polski” (currently “Sober Polski”), and a member of the editorial team at “Dziennik Literacki” since 2025. Founder of the podcast “Światy czytamy nowe” (Reading New Worlds). Co-founder of the association Kultura w Pracy (Culture at Work).

His poems have been translated into Czech, Danish, English, Greek, Hungarian, Slovak, Spanish and Ukrainian, and included in many anthologies.

Bibliography

poetry:

  • Robodramy w zieleniakach, Cracow: Korporacja Ha!art,
  • Największy na świecie drewniany coaster, Cracow: Fundacja Kontent, 2021.

comics /poemics:

  • 5 Gehenna. Ukryta prawda o Ziemi i jej ocaleniu 2, edit. I. Davydenko, poemics P. Kosenda, P. Burzyński, collages M. Hanuszkiewicz, Lublin: Magazyn Malkontenty, 2020.

anthologies:

  • Połów. Poetyckie debiuty 2017, edit. J. Mueller, M. Podgórnik, M. Sendecki, Stronie Śląskie: Biuro Literackie, 2018.
  • Równo z prawej: antologia polskiego poematu prozą, edit. J. Kornhauser, Poznań: Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna i Centrum Animacji Kultury, 2022.
  • Archiwum queerowej poezji X-Philes, edit. Gomulska, G. Sułkowska, Warsaw: Staromiejski Dom Kultury, 2023.
  • Uchylone wnętrze: literacka opowieść o Kolekcji Bunkra Sztuki, edit. P. Małochleb, Cracow: Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Bunkier Sztuki, 2025.

Translations

Danish:

  • in anthology: Polsk poesi; trans. L. Frej, P. Partyka, efterord K. Hoffmann, Vester Skerninge: Em, 2022.

English

  • in anthology: Lines from Visegrad. Anthology 2022, edit. P. Bódi, P. Szlovik, Göd: Kontroll V Egyesület, 2022 five-language edition: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak; introduction in Hungarian; translated by a number of translators).

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