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BORIS DRALYUK: POETRY FROM 1917: 'STOLEN WINE AND IRON FLOWERS'

Pushkin Press has commissioned Boris Dralyuk to edit an anthology — 1917 and All That — marking the centenary of the February and October Revolutions.  He will present his plans for the anthology, as well as a number of translations, including poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Zinaida Gippius, and Alexander Blok.  In English, with poetry in Russian and English. This is a Pushkin Club event and all are welcome.

Boris Dralyuk is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews.  He has translated and co-translated several volumes of poetry and prose from Russian and Polish, and is the co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015).