Nowy Świat Street

This guide to Nowy Świat Street in Warsaw revisits Pod Picadorem, a converted dairy shop that opened here in November 1918, weeks after Poland regained independence, where poet Tadeusz Raabe and three young writers read verse mocking the new republic to get past the censors. It follows the group later known as the Skamander poets, Jan Lechoń, Antoni Słonimski, and Julian Tuwim, and the cover story they gave officials to keep performing. Walk this stretch of shopfronts and cafe terraces, where a generation of Polish poetry first found its voice.