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Marius Kociejowski

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    • Marius Kociejowskiwas born in 1949 and lives in London. Poet, essayist and travel writer, he has published three collections of poetry, two books based on his travels in Syria, The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool(Eland) and The Pigeon Wars of Damascus(Biblioasis), God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners(Carcanet), which depicts a journey through the world cultures of contemporary London, two books of essays and feuilletons The Pebble Chance(Biblioasis) and Zoroaster's Children(Biblioasis), The Notebooks of Arcangelo Riffis(not yet published) and is currently working on a book about Naples. His Greville Press pamphlet Coastwas awarded the Cheltenham Prize in 1991.He is a frequent contributor to PN Review.

     

    'Difficulty has its own rewards in Kociejowski, whose careful orchestrations of language open up unexpected delights for the reader... These wonderful poems might serve as an antidote to the dumbing-down of modern life.'
    Ian Thomson, The Catholic Herald


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    Marius Kociejowski

    Marius Kociejowski (born 1949) is a Canadian-born poet, essayist and travel writer.

    Kociejowski was born in 1949 in Bishop's Mills, Ontario, to a Polish father and an English mother. In 1973, he left Canada and later settled in London.[1] His first publication, Coast, won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature in 1991.[2] He works as an antiquarian bookseller specializing in poetry.[3] His interest in Syria has led him to research and write two books about the country,[4] and edit a Syrian anthology of travel writing. His book God's Zoo (2014) consists of a series of encounters with creative artists living in London who have become exiles from their cultural and geographical roots.[5]

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    • Coast (Greville Press, 1990)
    • Doctor Honoris Causa (Anvil Press, 1993)
    • Music's Bride (Anvil Press, 1999). A Canadian edition of his poems, which collected the above
    • So Dance the Lords of Language (Porcupine's Quill in 2003) - a Canadian edition containing the above collections in a
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      Kociejowski, Marius

      Marius Kociejowski, born 1949, is a poet, essayist and travel writer. Among the books he has written are The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool – A Syrian Journey, now reissued by Eland, and a sequel, The Pigeon Wars of Damascus published by Biblioasis in 2010. His first collection of poetry, Coast (Greville Press, 1990) was awarded the Cheltenham Prize. His most recent books are God’s Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners (Carcanet, 2014), The Pebble Chance: prose & feuilletons (Biblioasis, 2014), Zoroaster’s Children and other travels (Biblioasis, 2015) and Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2019). He has recently completed another travel book, The Serpent Coiled in Naples. He lives in London, England where, until recently, he worked as an antiquarian bookseller.

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