‘Maria Stadnicka’s pieces from The Unmoving are exceptionally accomplished, puzzling, rich, linguistically aware yet full of dark emotion. The only escape from the imposed absolute of non-being is resolution to go forward irrationally free.’ The poems create a sense of urgency and mystery. In Stadnicka’s poems social, personal, and literary landscapes are fused and at times must be forcibly dislocated, both repositioned and torn apart, so that one can continue. Literature becomes the communication and solidarity that permit the step towards wholeness. The chance for the existence of a future or even the future is removed. What concerns Maria Stadnicka? She is speaking about the discontinuity of personal space and the intrusion of economic and political forces in an individual’s life that leads to fragmentation and, ultimately, to the dissolution of one’s reality. Her language assaults, bends, cajoles, thrusts a saber into the darkness of the very language she employs to explore death, degradation, the non-recognition of the human individual, war, urban violence, in short, the all-too-present context of our daily lives. Maria Stadnicka’s poems are clusters of consciousness, graphic, material images of our world. No part or parts of this content may be reproduced, copied, modified, published, or constructed from in any way without the express, direct written permission of Maria Stadnicka.‘A chisel, a hammer, a lyre reportage, intimate feelings, quips and criticisms. Any unauthorised reproduction or usage is in direct violation of the law and is strictly prohibited. All works, writing, images, and information found herein are protected under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published collections: 'Buried Gods Metal Prophets' (2021), 'The Geometric Kingdom' (2020), ‘Somnia' (2020), 'The Unmoving' (2018), 'Imperfect' (2017).įollow on Twitter: notice: © Maria Stadnicka, 2007-2023.

She read poetry at StAnza International Poetry Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Belfast Book Festival, London, Oxford, Bristol, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Plymouth Language Club, Stroud Book Festival, Tears in the Fence Festival, Winchester University. She completed her MA in Creative and Critical Writing at University of Gloucestershire. She is currently a lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and PhD researcher, exploring psycho-social aspects of migration and socio-cultural trauma in Britain.

Maria Stadnicka is a writer, editor and freelance journalist based in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Maria Stadnicka on An Everyday Project(July…

The Unmoving by Maria Stadnicka