Vladimir Zhbankov was born in Moscow in 1985 and has lived in Kyiv since 2015. He is the author of two collections of poems: “The Third Alphabet” and “Matchka” (Laurus, Kyiv, 2019, 2022). His texts have been published in Russian literary magazines, such as Prologue, Znamya, SHO, Interpoetry, Polutona, and others. In early spring 2022, he refused to be evacuated. After the Russian invasion, he worked as a volunteer in the defense of Kyiv, and later, as a coordinator of the project specializing in search and assistance to Ukrainian prisoners of war (Poshuk.Polon).
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.
A new collection of poems by Ian Probstein. (In Russian)