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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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“In the hallway of unaccustomed nights…”
In the hallway
of unaccustomed
nights
and frank
of expectation
smelled alive,
but none of them dared
any of them
to enter your dream
until
unless you call them.
And you didn’t call them.
You thought
that it will save you
from a long,
misery
suffering.
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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