Today, the official website of the Ukrainian magazine of foreign literature “VSESVIT” published the news that the autumn issue of the British literary publication “East-West Review” published a fragment of Aleksander Korotko‘s new poetry collection “War poems”.
We have already reported about this event on the website:
The news was prepared by Dmitry Drozdovsky, the editor-in-chief of the “VSESVIT” magazine, a researcher at the Department of Western and Slavic Literatures of the Institute of Literature named after T. G. Shevchenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine.
The news reports that translations from Aleksander Korotko‘s poem “War” open the magazine and are the poetic emblem of the issue, where the main motto is solidarity with Ukraine. This is evidenced by the address “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” from the editorial board, which opens the magazine.
You can get acquainted with the full text on the website of the magazine “VSESVIT” by the following link:
Destiny, change the record. Our traitor boys have enough black things to do without you.…
How did it all start yesterday in Washington? Someone really wanted to trample and humiliate…
*** How can you singthese wordsat the height of glory,don’t you seethat all our vowelsare…
*** Alarmous sorrow of fogs hides from hellish, stranger’s eyes the museum of our waxen…