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Poetry is freedom of spirit, flight, imagination. There are always sparks of the Divine in good poetry. When you read real poetry, you not only feel it, but also see it – in fact, you are in the cinema, where there is only one spectator, and this spectator is you, the reader!
Alexander Korotko
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“The days of remembrance have passed…”
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The days of remembrance have passed,
May rains — tears of those on Earth,
and the ashes of the fallen in war —
celestial beings.
Behind us — three years of pain.
And how to live with this —
is ours to decide, and ours alone.
In the beginning was the Word,
and now — words, words…
and words, like people, are tired.
It happens.
But all will pass. This too shall pass.
And Ukraine?
What about Ukraine?
She will be rebuilt —
inevitably and irreversibly.
06.06.2025
When Technology Reads Poetry: ChatGPT Analyzes a New Poem by Oleksandr Korotko
Modern tools open new horizons for dialogue with poetry. We decided to run an experiment…
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17.05.2025
Bilingual Poetry Collection “Notes from Wartime” Published in Poland – A Poetic Dialogue on the Experience of War
A bilingual poetry collection titled “Notatki z czasu wojny / Notes from Wartime”, co-authored by…
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30.04.2025
Bridges of Poetry: a Polish scholar shares her translations with a Ukrainian poet
Ukrainian poet Oleksandr Korotko recently received a letter from Professor Anna Bednarczyk of the University…
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27.04.2025
A New Bilingual Edition of Oleksandr Korotko’s Poetry Reaches Readers
A new book by Oleksandr Korotko has been published in Poland, featuring both Polish and…
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05.04.2025
“Moon Boy” — at the heart of literary discussion in Kyiv
English translation of Oleksandr Korotko’s “Moon Boy” has become a literary discovery for students of…
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30.11.2024
A scientific article by Dmytro Drozdovsky about the English-language edition of Oleksandr Korotko was published in the literary journal of the Latvian Academy of Sciences
Yesterday, editor and literary critic Dmytro Drozdovsky received wonderful news about the publication of his…
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13.11.2024
The Polish publishing house plans to publish a bilingual collection of poems by Oleksandr Korotkо
Yesterday, Oleksandr Korotko received a letter to his personal mail, which mentioned the intention of…
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04.11.2024
A new poem by the author has been published on the site
Olexandr Korotko is constantly working on new works, which we regularly publish in the relevant…
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Apprentice. Book about creators (Подмастерье. Книга о творцах)
A collection of poetry by Alexander Korotko, dedicated to great creators: from Pushkin and Lermontov to Picasso and Magritte, from Kafka and Freud to Vysotsky and Nureyev. The collection also includes the poem "Paris"...
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The Mausoleum of the Memory (Памяти Мавзолей)
A collection of philosophical and psychological poems by Alexander Korotko about the terrible pages of our history (the Gulag, the Holocaust)...
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Книга «Moon Boy» / «Лунный мальчик» в переводе на английский язык
How many remarkable lives there are within us. I went to meet the nocturnal guest. I don't know why, but at the very moment when I opened the door, I felt such warmth and tenderness, felt...
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Книга «Ragazzo di luna» / «Лунный мальчик» в переводе на итальянский
Korotko si riferisce alla demenza del tempo in modo trascendente, mentre l’intelligenza e la coscienza sono il frutto di uno sforzo che è necessario compiere: bisogna interrompere il...
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Irrazionalismo
Alexander Korotko is a Russian-language Ukrainian poet from Kyiv. Born in Korosten, Ukraine, he studied economics at Odessa University. His first collection, "Window", was published in 1989. Since then he has published more...
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Stus, Kindle Edition
A Narrative Poem by poet and writer Alexander Korotko. Tragic story of Ukrainian dissident poet Vasyl Stus, who died in Soviet forced labor camp....
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Joseph and Jacob, Kindle Edition
A Narrative Poem by poet and writer Alexander Korotko. This poem tells about the dramatic events that occurred in ancient times in Egypt with Joseph, his brothers, and their father Jacob....
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Abraham and Isaac, Kindle Edition
A Long Poem by poet and writer Alexander Korotko. Biblical story of the righteous Abraham, who was ready to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac at the behest of God...
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Bera and Cucumber, Kindle Edition
Tales, short stories and essays - Alexander Korotko's prose of the latter decade in a new book with an intriguing title. The action takes place in the Ukrainian city Odessa, where the author spent his childhood and youth. Non-standard plot, elements of ...
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Very occasionally a unique new voice in poetry rises above the clamouring crowd to command attention. Informed by a very different culture, language and environment from his Anglophone audience, Korotko’s short, sharp observations of life around him are far from the easiest to translate...
Hillary Shears, translator and poet. December 2019, London