Poetry night with Iryna Shuvalova
Date and time:
Wednesday 28 July, 2021
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation with acclaimed poet Iryna Shuvalova!
Iryna Shuvalova is a poet, translator, and scholar from Ukraine. She has authored five books of poetry, including the bilingual Pray to the Empty Wells published by Lost Horse Press in the US in fall 2019, and her most recent collection in Ukrainian stoneorchardwoods («каміньсадліс») (2020), named poetry book of the year by Ukraine’s Litakcent Prize for Literature. Her new poetry collection The Ending Songs («Кінечні пісні») is forthcoming in 2022.
Shuvalova’s writing has been widely anthologized and featured in the periodicals, including Modern Poetry in Translation. Her poems have been translated into nine languages. Her own work as a translator includes the writing of Louise Glück and Alice Oswald, as well as Ukrainian and Russian poetry she translates into English. Shuvalova’s translations appeared in Ambit, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poem, and Words Without Borders. In 2009, she co-edited the first anthology of queer literature in Ukraine 120 Pages of ‘Sodom’.
Books
Shuvalova, I. Forthcoming 2022. The Ending Songs. Chernivtsi: Meridian Chernowitz.
Shuvalova, I. 2020. Kaminsadlis. Lviv: VSL.
Shuvalova, I. 2019. Pray to the Empty Wells. ID: Lost Horse Press.
Shuvalova, I. 2014. Az. Kyiv: Elektroknyha.
Shuvalova, I. 2014. Os. Kyiv: Smoloskyp.
Shuvalova, I. 2011. Ran. Kyiv: Smoloskyp.
This event will be held in English, with poetry read in both English and Ukrainian.
Speaker
Iryna Shuvalova
Iryna Shuvalova is a poet, translator, and scholar from Ukraine. She authored five award-winning books of poetry, including the bilingual Pray to the Empty Wells published in the US in 2019, as well as her most recent collection in Ukrainian stoneorchardwoods («kamin’sadlis») (2020) named poetry book of the year by Ukraine’s Litakcent Prize for Literature. Her new poetry collection The Ending Songs («Kinechni pisni») is forthcoming in 2022. Her poems have been translated into nine languages. Shuvalova holds a PhD in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge. She is a member of PEN Ukraine.
Shuvalova has been awarded numerous prizes for poetry and translation, including first prize for poetry in the Smoloskyp Literary Competition (2010) and second place in Stephen Spender / Joseph Brodsky Prize (2012). She has supported English PEN as an expert on Ukrainian translation projects and has been a member of PEN Ukraine since 2020. She has performed her poetry internationally, including at the Oslo International Poetry Festival in 2018, as well as holding international writing residences and fellowships, such as the Hawthornden Castle Fellowship in 2015.
Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, she has lived in Greece, the UK, and the US. She now lives and works between Ukraine and China.
Moderator
Nina Murray
Nina Murray was born and raised in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv. She holds advanced degrees in linguistics and creative writing. She is the author of the poetry collection Alcestis in the Underworld (Circling Rivers Press, 2019) as well as chapbooks Minimize Considered (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Minor Heresies (Heartland Review Press, 2020), and Damascus Electric (Pen & Anvil Press, 2020). Her translations from Russian and Ukrainian include Peter Aleshkovsky’s Stargorod, Oksana Zabuzhko’s Museum of Abandoned Secrets, and Oksana Lutsyshyna’s Ivan and Phoebe (forthcoming from Deep Vellum).
