Poetry evening with Iryna Shuvalova
Date and time:
Saturday 14 October, 2023
17:00 - 18:30
Location:
Swedenborg Hall
Barter Street
London
WC1A 2TH
Join us to hear from Iryna Shuvalova, one of the most distinct voices in contemporary Ukrainian poetry!
Iryna Shuvalova, a poet, translator, and scholar of Ukraine will be in conversation with Uilleam Blacker about the place of poetry in times of war, the challenges and importance of translating, and how Ukrainians who find themselves away from their homeland can make sense of the genocidal violence that Russia has unleashed on their country.
Iryna Shuvalova will read her poems in Ukrainian and in English translation.
Speaker
Iryna Shuvalova
Iryna Shuvalova is a poet, scholar, and translator from Kyiv, Ukraine, based in Oslo, Norway. She is the author of five award-winning volumes of poetry, including her latest collection Stoneorchardwoods (2020), named poetry book of the year in Ukraine. In 2009, she co-edited the first anthology of queer writing in Ukraine. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and published internationally, including in Literary Hub, Modern Poetry in Translation, The White Review, and Words Without Borders, among others.
Moderator
Uilleam Blacker
Uilleam Blacker is Associate Professor of Ukrainian and East European culture at University College London and a translator of Ukrainian literature. He has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Times Literary Supplement, among others. His translations have appeared in The Guardian, Modern Poetry in Translation and in numerous anthologies. In 2022, he was Paul Celan Translation Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna; in 2023, he was a jury member for the International Booker Prize. He has published translations of Iryna Shuvalova’s poetry in The White Review, Words Without Borders, and Nelle.
