Andrzej Lyszkowicz

Andrzej Lyszkowicz was in born in 1970 in the Mazurian Lake District of Poland. He took his MA in American Literature at the University of Warsaw. He has been residing in the UK since 2006, where he took on a variety of customer service jobs. Lyszkowicz has maintained an interest in poetry since he was eight, when he became acquainted with the work of the Polish Romantics. He has also deeply indebted to post-war Polish poets such as Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert. Among his greatest influences in the English language are William Blake, John Donne, Dylan Thomas and the Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen.