Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
@g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social
poet and musician
www.grzegorzkwiatkowski.com
www.grzegorzkwiatkowski.com
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This is Yale Artist in Residence alert! I’m excited to share that I have been invited to spend 2025 as an artist in residence at Yale's Fortunoff Video Archive, conducting research for an upcoming artistic project based on testimonies.
Photo: Alicja Mongird
Photo: Alicja Mongird
The new episode of the program "Bez polityki", in which I was a guest, is now available.
Big thanks to TVN and Piotr Jacoń for the invitation and the conversation.
You can watch the program both on TV and online:
tvn24.pl/plus/program...
Big thanks to TVN and Piotr Jacoń for the invitation and the conversation.
You can watch the program both on TV and online:
tvn24.pl/plus/program...
January 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
The new episode of the program "Bez polityki", in which I was a guest, is now available.
Big thanks to TVN and Piotr Jacoń for the invitation and the conversation.
You can watch the program both on TV and online:
tvn24.pl/plus/program...
Big thanks to TVN and Piotr Jacoń for the invitation and the conversation.
You can watch the program both on TV and online:
tvn24.pl/plus/program...
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For the past year I've been working with Greil Marcus on his Substack. He's studied rock music and US history for over 50 years, and he's one of my all-time favorite writers.
He keeps a Q&A column—check it out, and submit a question of your own!
greilmarcus.substack.com/p/ask-greil-...
He keeps a Q&A column—check it out, and submit a question of your own!
greilmarcus.substack.com/p/ask-greil-...
Ask Greil: January 15, 2026
"The Brutalist," Adrien Brody, the Band, and Lester Bangs
greilmarcus.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM
For the past year I've been working with Greil Marcus on his Substack. He's studied rock music and US history for over 50 years, and he's one of my all-time favorite writers.
He keeps a Q&A column—check it out, and submit a question of your own!
greilmarcus.substack.com/p/ask-greil-...
He keeps a Q&A column—check it out, and submit a question of your own!
greilmarcus.substack.com/p/ask-greil-...
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Trupa Trupa Jolly New Songs!
2xLP down from £29 to £11!
CD down from £14 to £4!
Modern masterpiece of psych/garage/krautrock with brutal perfectly minimal lyrics from poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
2xLP down from £29 to £11!
CD down from £14 to £4!
Modern masterpiece of psych/garage/krautrock with brutal perfectly minimal lyrics from poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
January 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Trupa Trupa Jolly New Songs!
2xLP down from £29 to £11!
CD down from £14 to £4!
Modern masterpiece of psych/garage/krautrock with brutal perfectly minimal lyrics from poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
2xLP down from £29 to £11!
CD down from £14 to £4!
Modern masterpiece of psych/garage/krautrock with brutal perfectly minimal lyrics from poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
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But of course mate! 💥
Our 2025 BBC 6 concert is one of the best shows of the year — according to… BBC!
Thank you @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social
Thank you @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 10:31 PM
But of course mate! 💥
Our latest BBC 6 studio concert has been named one of the best shows of 2025 — by BBC.
Big thanks to Marc Riley and Gideon Coe.
This was our third session at BBC 6, and with every visit it feels more like home and less like a studio.
Big thanks to Marc Riley and Gideon Coe.
This was our third session at BBC 6, and with every visit it feels more like home and less like a studio.
January 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Our latest BBC 6 studio concert has been named one of the best shows of 2025 — by BBC.
Big thanks to Marc Riley and Gideon Coe.
This was our third session at BBC 6, and with every visit it feels more like home and less like a studio.
Big thanks to Marc Riley and Gideon Coe.
This was our third session at BBC 6, and with every visit it feels more like home and less like a studio.
I spoke with journalist Piotr Jacoń for TVN’s “Bez Polityki”. It airs next week.
Photo: Operator.pg
#tvn
Photo: Operator.pg
#tvn
January 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I spoke with journalist Piotr Jacoń for TVN’s “Bez Polityki”. It airs next week.
Photo: Operator.pg
#tvn
Photo: Operator.pg
#tvn
It’s tomorrow! Trupa Trupa will be on World Cafe, the most popular public radio music show in the United States. The episode features a performance and a conversation with the amazing Raina Douris.
January 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
It’s tomorrow! Trupa Trupa will be on World Cafe, the most popular public radio music show in the United States. The episode features a performance and a conversation with the amazing Raina Douris.
This is another feature made by TVN. I talk about Trupa Trupa, but not only me. You’ll also hear from Agnieszka Holland, @simonwilliam.bsky.social from Rolling Stone and Piotr Metz. This is just a sneak peek. You can watch the full feature on TV as well as on YT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDie...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDie...
January 6, 2026 at 4:41 PM
This is another feature made by TVN. I talk about Trupa Trupa, but not only me. You’ll also hear from Agnieszka Holland, @simonwilliam.bsky.social from Rolling Stone and Piotr Metz. This is just a sneak peek. You can watch the full feature on TV as well as on YT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDie...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDie...
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A short while ago, Arnout le Clercq from the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant visited Gdańsk. I told him the story of my grandfather, Józef Kwiatkowski, a prisoner of the German concentration camp Stutthof, later forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht, from which he deserted
A short while ago, Arnout le Clercq from the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant visited Gdańsk. I told him the story of my grandfather, Józef Kwiatkowski, a prisoner of the German concentration camp Stutthof, later forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht, from which he deserted
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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A short while ago, Arnout le Clercq from the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant visited Gdańsk. I told him the story of my grandfather, Józef Kwiatkowski, a prisoner of the German concentration camp Stutthof, later forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht, from which he deserted
A short while ago, Arnout le Clercq from the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant visited Gdańsk. I told him the story of my grandfather, Józef Kwiatkowski, a prisoner of the German concentration camp Stutthof, later forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht, from which he deserted
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#topfives #gigs2025
1. Sparks - Manchester Apollo
2. Robert Forster - Band on the Wall
3. Trupa Trupa - Preston Continental
4. Field Music - BOTW
5. Ezra Furman - Liverpool Rough Trade
Improved health allowed me to go to more gigs this year but then developed tinnitus which impeded 2nd half of year
1. Sparks - Manchester Apollo
2. Robert Forster - Band on the Wall
3. Trupa Trupa - Preston Continental
4. Field Music - BOTW
5. Ezra Furman - Liverpool Rough Trade
Improved health allowed me to go to more gigs this year but then developed tinnitus which impeded 2nd half of year
January 1, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Happy to see Mourners in Onet’s Top Ten Albums of the Year 🖤
December 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Happy to see Mourners in Onet’s Top Ten Albums of the Year 🖤
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I’ve already wrapped up my Trupa Trupa year in review, and now it’s time for my academic and writing summary plus plans for 2026. Next year I’ll be visiting, among others, Harvard, Northwestern University, Yale University, George Mason University, Oxford
I’ve already wrapped up my Trupa Trupa year in review, and now it’s time for my academic and writing summary plus plans for 2026. Next year I’ll be visiting, among others, Harvard, Northwestern University, Yale University, George Mason University, Oxford
December 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I’ve already wrapped up my Trupa Trupa year in review, and now it’s time for my academic and writing summary plus plans for 2026. Next year I’ll be visiting, among others, Harvard, Northwestern University, Yale University, George Mason University, Oxford
I’ve already wrapped up my Trupa Trupa year in review, and now it’s time for my academic and writing summary plus plans for 2026. Next year I’ll be visiting, among others, Harvard, Northwestern University, Yale University, George Mason University, Oxford
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The premiere of the album “Mourners” took place in Hollywood in Los Angeles, the city of Nick Launay, the producer of the record. The entire “Mourners” tour began on the West Coast, then moved to the East Coast and ended with a concert in New York City.
The premiere of the album “Mourners” took place in Hollywood in Los Angeles, the city of Nick Launay, the producer of the record. The entire “Mourners” tour began on the West Coast, then moved to the East Coast and ended with a concert in New York City.
December 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The premiere of the album “Mourners” took place in Hollywood in Los Angeles, the city of Nick Launay, the producer of the record. The entire “Mourners” tour began on the West Coast, then moved to the East Coast and ended with a concert in New York City.
The premiere of the album “Mourners” took place in Hollywood in Los Angeles, the city of Nick Launay, the producer of the record. The entire “Mourners” tour began on the West Coast, then moved to the East Coast and ended with a concert in New York City.
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Here’s a Boxing Day deal for ya: my Top 100 Songs of 2025, absolutely free! open.substack.com/pub/stuberma...
My Top 100 songs of 2025
Pulp's premier power ballad, Water From Your Eyes' pawn-shop disco, Cory Hanson's honky-tonk Rundgren, Geese's drunken drum-circle jams, and 96 other heavily rotated faves
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here’s a Boxing Day deal for ya: my Top 100 Songs of 2025, absolutely free! open.substack.com/pub/stuberma...
1/2 This news both closes the year and opens a new one: the album Mourners has landed at #4 on Raina Douris & WXPN’s list of the best albums in the world 🖤
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
1/2 This news both closes the year and opens a new one: the album Mourners has landed at #4 on Raina Douris & WXPN’s list of the best albums in the world 🖤
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"Who among us is truly normal? Everyone has something, everyone is different, and that is precisely the new, wonderful norm . . . that so deeply irritates the far-right moralists."
Beautiful essay by @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social:
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...
Beautiful essay by @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social:
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...
Agnieszka Holland’s Complicated Kafka, by Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
A writer and musician from Gdańsk, Poland, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski collaborated on Franz with Agnieszka Holland, a filmmaker who in the dark times of the Communist regime left Poland for Prague out of lo...
worldliteraturetoday.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
"Who among us is truly normal? Everyone has something, everyone is different, and that is precisely the new, wonderful norm . . . that so deeply irritates the far-right moralists."
Beautiful essay by @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social:
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...
Beautiful essay by @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social:
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...
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“I think absurdity, together with guilt and the state of lost innocence, without melodrama or self-pity, is what most reminds me of Kafka.”
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski considers the film Franz’s universal relevance.
@g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski considers the film Franz’s universal relevance.
@g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...
December 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“I think absurdity, together with guilt and the state of lost innocence, without melodrama or self-pity, is what most reminds me of Kafka.”
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski considers the film Franz’s universal relevance.
@g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski considers the film Franz’s universal relevance.
@g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...
Hip hip hooray! “Mourners” is number two on Polish Radio Three’s list of the best songs of the year. Never before has any of our albums received such an amazing response in Poland. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
December 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Hip hip hooray! “Mourners” is number two on Polish Radio Three’s list of the best songs of the year. Never before has any of our albums received such an amazing response in Poland. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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"Czesław Miłosz suggested that artists from our central and eastern region had an advantage over their western peers. They lived in criminal and oppressive systems that revealed the true potential of humanity, and we were wiser for that dark knowledge."
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
"Czesław Miłosz suggested that artists from our central and eastern region had an advantage over their western peers. They lived in criminal and oppressive systems that revealed the true potential of humanity, and we were wiser for that dark knowledge."
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"Today it seems that it is democracy itself that is being kidnapped, methodically, without fireworks, and quite quickly. And it is happening in almost every country in the world."
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Great, great joy on my part: a jubilee issue (100 years of publication) of one of the world’s most important literary magazines, World Literature Today, has just been released.
Great, great joy on my part: a jubilee issue (100 years of publication) of one of the world’s most important literary magazines, World Literature Today, has just been released.
December 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"Today it seems that it is democracy itself that is being kidnapped, methodically, without fireworks, and quite quickly. And it is happening in almost every country in the world."
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Great, great joy on my part: a jubilee issue (100 years of publication) of one of the world’s most important literary magazines, World Literature Today, has just been released.
Great, great joy on my part: a jubilee issue (100 years of publication) of one of the world’s most important literary magazines, World Literature Today, has just been released.
December 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Great, great joy on my part: a jubilee issue (100 years of publication) of one of the world’s most important literary magazines, World Literature Today, has just been released.
Great, great joy on my part: a jubilee issue (100 years of publication) of one of the world’s most important literary magazines, World Literature Today, has just been released.
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My German publisher, Parasitenpresse, has just shared a promotional photo featuring my book "Brennend", translated by Peter Constantine.
My German publisher, Parasitenpresse, has just shared a promotional photo featuring my book "Brennend", translated by Peter Constantine.
December 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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My German publisher, Parasitenpresse, has just shared a promotional photo featuring my book "Brennend", translated by Peter Constantine.
My German publisher, Parasitenpresse, has just shared a promotional photo featuring my book "Brennend", translated by Peter Constantine.
Trupa Trupa’s album landed at #6 on Greg Kot’s Sound Opinions Best Albums of the Year. Same list as FKA twigs, Rosalía, Stereolab, Wet Leg. After Rolling Stone, I honestly thought that was it. Apparently not.
December 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Trupa Trupa’s album landed at #6 on Greg Kot’s Sound Opinions Best Albums of the Year. Same list as FKA twigs, Rosalía, Stereolab, Wet Leg. After Rolling Stone, I honestly thought that was it. Apparently not.
Thank you very much for a wonderful evening at the Vienna International Research Center for Cultural Studies.
Photo: IFK
Photo: IFK
December 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Thank you very much for a wonderful evening at the Vienna International Research Center for Cultural Studies.
Photo: IFK
Photo: IFK
Hello from Vienna! This evening’s event “Denkpausen mit Grzegorz Kwiatkowski” is at the International Centre for Cultural Research. In the photo: St. Marx Cemetery, one of Vienna’s most beautiful spots and where Mozart is buried. Just next to it is a small cemetery beehive.
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Hello from Vienna! This evening’s event “Denkpausen mit Grzegorz Kwiatkowski” is at the International Centre for Cultural Research. In the photo: St. Marx Cemetery, one of Vienna’s most beautiful spots and where Mozart is buried. Just next to it is a small cemetery beehive.