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Richard McKane

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Richard McKane

Richard McKane was born in 1947 and has a degree in Russian from Oxford University. Based in London, he is a poet and translator of Russian and Turkish poetry.

Articles by Richard McKane

Lovers in Samarkand
By Hamid Ismailov
You breathe in the burning air,
 / your lungs fill with the air of the flute
Translated from Uzbek by Hamid Ismailov & Richard McKane
An Uncoincidence, a Noncoincidence
By Larissa Miller
Someone rushes to a house that's been moved away.
Translated from Russian by Richard McKane
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[“Well, let’s fly . . .”]
By Larissa Miller
“Well, let’s fly . . .”“Where to and why?”“Just fly to nowhereafter that cloud . . .”Just let’s rush off nowhere, nowhere,let’s listen to the wires…
Translated from Russian by Richard McKane
[Fate’s little pictures]
By Larissa Miller
Fate’s little picturesdrawn by a most slender pen,will hang in the damp airon a little spider’s web.The rains drawwith their own flying handwriting,and the wind shuffleslight strokes like…
Translated from Russian by Richard McKane
[All this moves and rustles]
By Larissa Miller
All this moves and rustles,plays and waves,dances blindly to someone’s pipeand crowns someone’s thought.It plays and singsand beckons with an apple branchand at times sweetly wounds the soul,at…
Translated from Russian by Richard McKane
[The wind revels in the quiet night…]
By Larissa Miller
The wind revels in the quiet night . . .The Lord has marked the coming dayin a black draft, so as to recreate iton a clean white copy, and the skywill be bright in a momentand will flare in a crimson…
Translated from Russian by Richard McKane
[“La vie,” Edith Piaf sings]
By Larissa Miller
“La vie,” Edith Piaf sings,“La vie, la vie,” seize the moment . . .And this voice is eternally rightand there’s no threat of it being buried in oblivion.“La vie,”…
Translated from Russian by Richard McKane