Сriticism

Patrick Miles’ review of the poem “War”

"Patrick Miles, an academic, so I think we can take seriously his high praise for Alexander's poems, which he has…

2 years ago

Reflections on the poem “Paris” by O. Korotko

«Following a prominent romantic tradition, thepoet remains at the center of the poetic work: asa hero, not a public figure,…

2 years ago

Poetic splinters of Alexander Korotko’s thoughts

The genre of Alexander Korotko's poetic miniatures, published below under the title "Shadows of Words", which refers us to one…

3 years ago

“The Moon Boy” (“Ragazzo di Luna”) by Alexander Korotko in Italian: the synergy of images through the echo of language means

The translation of fiction is always in the realm of the intersection of two planes: linguistic and figurative, which are…

4 years ago

Preface

Very occasionally a unique new voice in poetry rises above the clamouring crowd to command attention. Informed by a very…

4 years ago

About the “Moon Boy” story by Alexander Korotko

The detective was born in the era of romanticism, examples of this genre are widely represented in both German and…

4 years ago

“Son” by A. Korotko: experience of phenomenological approximation in kairos

Sometimes a literary work raises the strange question for the reader right in its first sentence: why does "silence shorten…

4 years ago

Dmytro Drozdovsky (about Alexander Korotko’s poem

Alexander Korotko’s poem "Towards the Dawn" (written 11 years ago), is like the shield of Achilles in the ancient poem…

4 years ago

ABRAHAM’S QUESTION

The figure of Abraham is multidimensional and polysemantic, both simple and inscrutable at the same time. Abraham is the father…

4 years ago

Translator’s notes

The task of translating poetry is, on the one hand, often very challenging, but on the other, almost always extremely…

4 years ago

«Good poetry has always been ahead of time…»

Alexander Korotko was born in the Ukraine in 1952 and lives in Kiev. He writes in Russian and says his…

4 years ago

Alexander Korotko. The applause of dead hands.

Pavlo Zagrebelny, a famous Ukrainian writer. Essay. Kiev, Konche Ozernaya, January 2000 Even paying tribute to the graphic significance (hands…

4 years ago

Sleepwalking as a Means of Self Preservation

Writers always write about the past, even if the past refers to the past seconds. Nonetheless “The Moon Boy” is…

4 years ago

Tete-a-tete with silence

Poetry is a dangerous thing. Like a plastic bomb. Remember Pasternak? ‘The lines have blood in them. They kill. They…

4 years ago