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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 GOTHIC FLAVOUR OF MADNESS
The long, lonely streets
of time –
manic and tragic
with chimes
with chimes beating in hearts,
that lead
to the bomb shelters of dreams.
Already merged in a long
mad
kiss of death
dawns and sunsets,
as Adam and Eve once did
before parting
to Paradise.
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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