The poets in this anthology - Jacek Dehnel, Agnieszka Kuciak, Anna Piwkowska, Tomasz Rozyski, Dariusz Suska and Maciej Wozniak - belong to a generation whose work stands in stark contrast to the highly individualist writing unleashed by the removal of censorship after the fall of communism, writing with an aesthetic of stylistic brutality personified by the anarchic artist-oustider, writing which rejected what had gone before. The poets presented in this anthology, however, take a longer view of their cultural past, re-examining and experimenting with traditional poetic forms, themes and cultural references in a refined, witty dialogue with the reader.