Poetry evening with Iryna Shuvalova

Iryna Shuvalova, in conversation with Uilleam Blacker, read and discuss poetry in war, and how Ukrainians away from their homeland make sense of genocidal violence Russia has unleashed. 14 October 2023.
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.
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