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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 land of wheat fields…”
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The land of wheat fields,
the edge of the plains,
children, sing —
but know this:
on this earth,
only your Motherland
is paradise.
Not it — but yourselves
temper in the flames of our days —
and feel in your hearts
a love like that for a mother.
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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