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I'm not completely sure, but to me 'English book' sounds like a book about English (e.g. a grammar guide) rather than a book written in English.
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Assuming it is a book about English, it would be "Piszemy książkę o [języku] angielskim", but I feel most of the times a native speaker(me for sure) would be more specific here, so it would be, for example, "Piszemy książkę o gramatyce angielskiego"(We are writing a book about English grammar), "Piszemy książkę o historii angielskiego(history of English [language]), "[…]o fonologii angielskiego"(English phonology) and so on, depending on the topic.
That should be correct It's true that it can have a different meaning but it should be considered a correct translation
only in this context - speaking, writing in a language.
I checked a dictionary http://sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/po.html po has 19 meanings,
Usually po means after popołudnie= afternoon
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"An English book" could mean several things, based on context. To be perfectly clear that the book is in English as opposed to someother language, "a book in English" works best.
Do polish prepositions usually take the nominative then? Or is that not the nominative
Prepositions do not change, so they do not have cases.
Words after preposition take different cases depending on preposition and context.
And here in "po ....u" it's not a real case, it's a special word form of adjective just for this kind of expressions.
I did write somewhere a list of possible meanings of po+ adjective, but it's basically- like we they do it there .
