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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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21.07.2021
New translations into Chinese and English
Chinese translator Yijin Wang sent another block of poems. Thus, 18 texts of the new…
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13.07.2021
Alexander Korotko congratulates Peter Rykhlo on being awarded the prestigious literary prize
At the end of June, Peter Rykhlo, Ukrainian literary critic, essayist and translator, became a…
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10.07.2021
The translations of Korotko’s new poems into different languages
Recently, poetry of Korotko rather quickly, without changing its essence, takes different shapes, different music…
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02.07.2021
The translation of the essay “The Grand Master of Absences” into English is completed
Michael Pursglove (his photo complements the news) completely translated into English Alexander Korotko’s essay about…
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25.06.2021
For the first time: Chinese magazine “World Literature” with translations of Korotko’s poetry
Alexander Korotko received copyright copies of the magazine “World Literature” (No. 5-6, 2021), which is…
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24.06.2021
THE EVENTS page update
Alexander Korotko’s poem “STUS” is really an event both for the author and for those…
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18.06.2021
“Moon Boy” at book exhibition “BOOK SHOW 2021”
In the United States at the end of June, the annual book exhibition “BOOK SHOW…
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11.06.2021
Alexander Korotko: thoughts about transations
On his Facebook page, the poet published a small in volume, but limitless in thought,…
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Подмастерье. Книга о творцах
Сборник поэзии Александра Коротко, посвящённый великим творцам: от Пушкина и Лермонтова – до Пикассо и Магритта, от Кафки и Фрейда – до Высоцкого и Нуриева. В сборник также вошла поэма "Париж"...
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Памяти Мавзолей
Сборник философско-психологических стихов Александра Коротко о страшных страницах нашей истории (ГУЛАГ, Холокост)...
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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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Criticism
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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