Ecco – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:21:10 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Ecco – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Monologue of a Dog https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/monologue-of-a-dog/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=53963 “A Szymborska poem is always charming, wonderfully charming, charming as a small child singing, charming as a great pop-song lyric. But her poems are also, to use an old word, ‘deep,’ mysteriously so, about the very nature of existence.” -Adam Gopnick, the New Yorker

From the Nobel Prize winner, a classic collection of witty and contemplative poems, featuring a foreword by Billy Collins

In Monologue of a Dog, Wislawa Szymborska writes with her signature mix of intellect and humor about everything from love unremembered to keys lost in the grass, finding in the smallest moments a path to the vast questions of existence. What begins as a passing thought ends, in her hands, as an x-ray of the human condition.

This bilingual edition, with translations from the incomparable Clare Kavanagh, serves as a perfect introduction for new readers and an essential companion for devoted fans.

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