"Przybyliśmy z Bogdanem na ten brzeg / szlakiem szalbierzy drwali lemingów" : o dialogu poetyckim Andrzeja Buszy i Bogdana Czaykowskiego

Abstract

Summa r y The paper deals with the more than fifty- year- old friendship and the ac-companying literary dialogue between Andrzej Busza and Bogdan Czaykow- ski. These two outstanding Polish poets first met in the fifties of the last cen-tury in London, England, in the milieu of the poetic group “Kontynenty”. Subsequently, both taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. What united them, above all, was a shared passion for literature: the main topic of their dialogue. The conversations of the two poets focused to a large extent on their poetry; but at the same time, they worked jointly on translations (mostly from Polish into English). They also published dialogues in which they discussed a variety of contemporary issues.