Wisława Szymborska

Kraków: Living in a Metaphor

Sabin Iqbal

Like a well-crafted novel, Kraków reveals its secrets slowly, inviting repeated visits, rewarding careful attention. Sabin Iqbal gets into the city’s literary soul

The Mozart of Poetry

Sabin Iqbal

The leanness of the streets in Poznan reminded me of the ‘chiselled’ and lean lines of Wisława Szymborska, the Nobel-winning poet who was born in a remote village 20 kilometres from the city a century ago today