I am the forbidden flag.

How should a person feel in a society whose emblem is the line: "He wanted to possess you / we held on"? Especially when the results of this "possession" and "holding on" are already obvious, because the universe, social and personal, has ended. 

One of the answers to these questions is Artur Komorowski's book of poems "I am and am a forbidden flag". It reflects complex relationships with reality, which under the influence of social circumstances become extremely corrupted. The book poses the urgent problem of non-acceptance of "others", that is, those who are different in some way, do not fit in with "their own". What this difference is based on makes no difference. The leitmotifs of violence and the fragility of the body, attempts to find support in the post-August world - all this introduces Artur Komorowski's book into the stream of protest lyrics, while nevertheless preserving the originality of the poetic world.

Artur Komorowski born on March 22, 1991 in the city of Mir. Poet, performer. Graduated from the School of Poetry at the Public Organization "Union of Belarusian Writers" (2013, 2020). Published in a number of Belarusian magazines ("Dzeyaslov", "Maladost", etc.), on numerous online portals ("Taubin", "Dvoetochie", "Polutona", etc.), as well as in collective collections "Here They Are, and Here We Are", "In the Language of Silence" (2021). Poems have been translated into Ukrainian, Polish, Swedish, Russian, Estonian and English. Translates from Ukrainian, Polish and Swedish. Winner of the Maksim Bahdanovich Debut Prize (2021) for the first book of poems "Water Begins to Live". Editor of the online magazine of modern Belarusian poetry "Taubin". Participant of international performance and art festivals "Eve's Ribs", "Performensk", "Carbonarium", "NOW". Member of VIA "Krasny Borshchevik". translates from Ukrainian, Polish and Swedish. He is the laureate of the Maksim Bahdanovič "Debut" award (2021) for the first book of poems "The Water begins to live". Editor of the online magazine of modern Belarusian poetry, "Taubin". Participant of international festivals of performance and art "Rebra Eva", "Performensk", "Carbonarium", "NOW". Member of the musical band "Red Borshchevik".