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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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“Prediction as prayer …”
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Prediction as prayer –
white magic rebellion
over the madness of black magic
at the point of life called evil.
Whether a miracle comes true or not
that’s heaven’s business.
We need to do ours properly.
Our time has come.
Neither fear nor despair
has no answers to our questions.
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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