About Bohdan

Bohdan Piasecki is a performance poet from Poland who currently lives in England. In 2003, he started the first poetry slam series in his country, introducing Poles to spoken word and creating a new platform for a whole generation of performers. Since then, Bohdan has travelled around the world with his poetry; he represented Poland at the 2007 Poetry Slam World Cup in Paris (and was the only European poet to reach the finals), proudly wore the title of the 2008 Hammer & Tongue Oxford Season Slam Champion, and was an artist in residence at the European Poetry Slam Days in Berlin in 2009. He has recently completed a European tour with “Smoke and Mirrors”, a multilingual circus show of poetry and music. Bohdan also has a keen interest in literary translation, and actively pursues collaborations with artists from fields as varied as photography, video, music, and dance.

Bohdan is also the West Midlands Programme Coordinator for Apples & Snakes. You can find out more about what he does there by following this link.

Bohdan derives a perverse pleasure from inflicting poems in Polish on unsuspecting international audiences. He has a tendency to speak too much, enjoys walking, but loathes chewing gum, and hopes against all odds to learn to play bass one day.

He also finds writing about himself in the third person has lost a lot of its lustre and novelty since the advent of social networking sites.

Downloads

Click here to download a .zip archive with some photos and a brief biog in English, Polish, and French.