Marek Baterowicz - "Memoirs of Fr Jerzy Popiełuszko"
date: October 20, 2025 Editor: GKut
In remembrance of the martyrdom of Fr Jerzy Popiełuszko on October 19th, the National Day of the commemoration of the spiritual unbreakable – priests who, in the face of totalitarian terror, remained faithful to God and the Homeland
Marek Baterovich
(from the volume "From the another side of the tree", 1992)
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Marek Baterovich, born1944) as a poet, he made his debut in the pages of "The Common Week" and "The Student" (1971). Book debut - "Verses to Dawn" (W-wa, 1976); the title was an allusion to the night of PRL. In 1981, he published outside censorship a collection of poems entitled "Having broken branches of silence". Since 1985 on emigration, since 1987 in Australia. Author of respective prose titles(M.in "Zarno rises in wound"-1992 in Sydney and 2017 in Warsaw) and many poesy collections specified as "heart and fist" (Sydney, 1987), "From that side of the tree" (Melbourne, 1992 – poems collected), "Place in the atlas" (Sydney, 1996), "Chair and Shadow" (Sydney,2003), "On the Sun leash" (Sydney, 2008). In 2010 in Italy there was a selection of poems – "Canti del pianoa", followed by "Status quo" (Toronto, 2014), a collection of short stories – "Jeu de masques" (Nantes, 2014), "Over large Water" (Sydney, 2015) and an e-book of his naval novel, settled in the 16th century "Aux vents conjurés".(www.polskacanada.com/aux-vents-conjures-par-marker-batter
