Terry McDonaght's words about my poetry in "Silence and Chopin"

In Dorota Szumilas’s poetry we find evocative words, music, art and powerful pictures of seasonal change which express themselves in the perennial longing that lie at the heart of what it means to be human.

There is an abundance of colour, memory, melancholy, spirit and joy on and between the lines. We listen, see, taste, touch and smell. We are provoked to come on a hike to the sun-drenched snows of a forest; we are encouraged to leave silence in order to participate in the natural world but we have a duty to return, again, to silence. Above all, we are invited to reflect.

This poetry is immediate and though-provoking. It is concise in spoken and unspoken words. One can’t help feeling that language and music are always within easy reach of each other.

Terry McDonagh   (poet and dramatist)