Oksana Maksymchuk
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STILL CITY 📖⏳ 2024 @Carcanet/@PittPoetry ⚪️ bit.ly/4bFl9Hs ⚪️ Poems @parisreview, #ThePoetryReview ⚪️ Fellow NEA '19, @iasceu '22 ⚪️ Lit translator 🇺🇦
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This is Alex, callsign Mike, combat medic with HOSPITALLERS PARAMEDICS . She was killed today by a ru FPV drone which targeted her evacuation vehicle as she was performing a last mission in the Kharkiv region before coming home tomorrow. Alexandra Mulkevych 27.03.1989 - 14.08.2024 💔
Friends, we're finalizing my UK book tour (🫶 Carcanet Press). I'll be reading in Manchester, York, London, Brighton, Oxford, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Liverpool, & Glasgow. If you're affiliated with a uni/bookstore/centre & might like to host, DM me. I'm open to a few more invites.
Missed my book launch? 📚🚀💫 Here's a recording from Carcanet Press. Some key moments: Sasha Dugdale's intro: 0:08-3:05 Poetry Reading: 5:37-19:04 Conversation w/ Sasha and the audience: 19:16-56:30 youtube.com/watch?v=Jd4yYw…
But translation wreaks havoc on official exchange rates and economic ideals. Translation is not an economical act; it’s an act of “transgressive circulation.” Johannes Göransson
Sasha Dugdale’s THE STRONGBOX Carcanet Press sings&singes, a singular language of glassmaking, as the sands of history, epic, myth, tales, & “the thud of your own heart” are spun into new eyes of unaffected seeing, in the “dirty fire” of a lyre tilting forward into the foreign
Tom Collins' op-ed for The Irish News highlights the plight of civilians & our hopes for the future through the lens of Still City, the poetic diary I started keeping in the months before Russia's full-scale invasion and continued writing in its wake. irishnews.com/opinion/allies…
Calling all #poets! Our poetry submissions are now open for new collections of 55pp or more & pamphlets up to 25pp (max). Submit your work for consideration by 5pm Monday 30th September. Visit our submissions page for details serenbooks.com/submissions/. Zoë Brigley Rhian Edwards