brulion was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 magazine

Magazine

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 which was published in Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

 from 1986 - 1999. Its editor in chief was Robert Tekieli. Originally a quarterly of the alternative and semi-legal Polish culture, it became known for respecting no taboos and producing scandals since its ninth issue, thus becoming the voice of the underground

Resistance movement

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, anti-communist

Anti-communism

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 Poland. The generation of brulion writers was influenced mainly by American poets like Frank O'Hara

Frank O'Hara

Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet and art critic. He was a member of the New York School of poetry.-Life:...

 (that is why they're often called o´harists), Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...

 or John Ashbery

John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...

, translated by Pietr Sommer. Another translator, Stanisław Barańczak, introduced to Poland the poetry of Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL is widely regarded as one of the great English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century...

, W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

, Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...

 and others. Brulion published among others an almanac named Przyszli barbarzyńci (Future barbarians; the title comes from a poem by Konstantinos Kavafis). Therefore the brulion generation is also known as barbarians.

The best known brulion authors

• Marcin Baran
  Marcin Baran
  Marcin Baran is a Polish poet and journalist. He has a degree in Polonistics from the Jagiellonian University. He is one of the Polish poets who published their verses in the magazine bruLion ....
  
  
• Miłosz Biedrzycki
• Marzena Broda
• Paweł Filas
• Natasza Goerke
• Manuela Gretkowska
  Manuela Gretkowska
  Manuela Gretkowska is a Polish writer, screenwriter and politician. She is the founder of the Polish Women's Party.-Biography:...
  
  
• Krzysztof Jaworski
• Krzysztof Koehler
• Cezary Michalski
• Jacek Podsiadło
• Marcin Sendecki
• Mirosław Spychalski
• Marcin Świetlicki
  Marcin Swietlicki
  Marcin Świetlicki is a Polish poet, writer, and musician. He lives and works in Cracow, Poland.Świetlicki was born in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland. He studied Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, where he has been living since 1980. He worked as an editor at the Tygodnik...
  
  
• Olga Tokarczuk
  Olga Tokarczuk
  Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,...
  
  
• Grzegorz Wróblewski