Arkady Shtypel (1944-2024) was a poet, translator, and author of several poetry books. He was born in 1944 in Kattakurgan, in evacuation. He spent his childhood and youth in Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro). He studied physics at the Dnepropetrovsk University. He was expelled from the university for attempting to create a samizdat literary magazine and accused of both Zionism and Ukrainian nationalism. After serving in the army, he graduated from the university by correspondence. Since 1969, he has lived in Moscow and published several poetry books. His first book, “Visiting Euclid,” was published in 2002. In 2016, a book of his translations of Russian classical poetry into Ukrainian was published in Kyiv (Publishing House “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”). He was a regular participant of the Kyiv Laurels Festival and poetry programs of the Lviv Publishers Forum. Since 2021, he lived in Odesa; during the last three years of his life, he published two books of poetry in Ukraine (one of them in Ukrainian).
“Monkey’s Excuse” is a collection of short stories and parables by Nina Kossman, bilingual author of eight books of poetry and prose, compiler of the anthology “Gods and Mortals” (Oxford University Press), artist, and translator of Tsvetaeva’s poems into English.
This collection includes poems written in 2020-2023. (Russian edition)
“The Lingering Twilight” (“Сумерки”) is Marina Eskin’s fifth book of poems. (Russian edition)
Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.
A collection of moving, often funny vignettes about a childhood spent in the Soviet Union.
“Vivid picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.” —Booklist
“This unique book will serve to promote discussions of freedom.” —School Library Journal
A book of poems by Maria Galina, put together and completed exactly one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Galina’s seventh book of poems. With translations by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse.