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Uilleam Blacker

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Uilleam Blacker

Uilleam Blacker is a lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He has published widely on Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian literature and has translated the work of several contemporary Ukrainian writers.

Articles by Uilleam Blacker

An overhead shot of an empty brick elevator shaft

Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

vox

By Iryna Shuvalova

I want to speak like a woman who burns a pile of old paper in the street / and the flame dances but you can’t see her face

Translated from Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker

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Photo by Niels Weiss on Unsplash

vesper

By Iryna Shuvalova

do you see—the trees have gathered at the gates in the twilight

Translated from Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker

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Photo by Levi Kyiv on Unsplash

a moving grove

By Iryna Shuvalova

In this poem written a year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Iryna Shuvalova proposes an aesthetics of escape.

Translated from Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker

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Photo by Daniil Onischenko on Unsplash

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Uilleam Blacker

Uilleam Blacker

Articles by Uilleam Blacker

vox

vesper

a moving grove

Apartment No. 9: Goodbye, Lenin!

Chernobyl Poems

Buying Time

April 2045: The Hole