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Outstanding Writing from Ireland and Overseas
War in Europe
(Volume 12, Number 1)
“War in Europe” is another outstanding, international and truly essential issue from Irish Pages, the island’s premier literary journal. Guest-edited by the highly distinguished Ukrainian-American novelist, essayist and poet Askold Melnyczuk, the prime focus of this major issue is of course Europe’s war in Ukraine.
Much superb Ukrainian writing (from both inside and outside the country) has been assembled. A great deal of translation was involved, including mostly by distinguished poets and translators whose first language is English. All involved view this issue as an “urgent ethical project”.
Since it’s been going on forever, “War in Europe” is also not of course limited to the current war in Ukraine. There are small relevant amounts of writing about the violent twentieth-century history of Ireland (including the Troubles) and of the Balkans, as well as the on Second World War. As with every issue, there will also be a “Portfolio” of images – this time, of course, focussing on the revolutions and war in Ukraine, with both a portfolio of photographs and one of art works.
This is already shaping up as our second most important issue, after “Heaney” (2014), with a likely large global reach given some of the well-known international contributors.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Essays and poems in translation by many of Ukraine’s leading writers and scholars, including Serhiy Zhadan, Yuri Andrukhovych, Serhii Plokhy, Oksana Zabuzhko, Ostap Slyvynsky, Yuliya Musakovska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Jurko Prochasko, Iaroslava Strikha, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Iya Kiva, Oksana Lutsyshyna, Halyna Kruk, Olha Poliukhovych, Artem Chekh & Marjana Savka.
Also work in English from Irish, British and American writers including David Rieff, Carolyn Forché, Timothy Snyder, Amelia Glaser, Marci Shore, Peter Balakian, Christopher Merrill, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Bruce Weigl, Ed Vulliamy, Moya Cannon, Ciarán O’Rourke, Patrick Breslin, Chris Agee, Michael Longley & Mark Cousins.
With further translations from the Irish, Hungarian, Spanish and Belarusian – and much more, including “A Suite of Poems on the Holodomor”.
PLUS: Ukraine: A Love Story & Don’t Close Your Eyes – TWO OUTSTANDING PORTFOLIOS OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART WORKS.
Edited by Chris Agee and Askold Melnyczuk
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A reading at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.
The People of Scotland’s Address to World Leaders
A poem was curated by Scotland’s makar Kathleen Jamie in November 2023.
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Publishing outstanding books in English, Irish & Scots
SUMMER OFFER: order a two- or three-year subscription to our journal Irish Pages and receive a free copy of Chris Agee’s Trump Rant.
Ireland’s premier literary journal
Outstanding Writing from Ireland and Overseas
War in Europe
(Volume 12, Number 1)
“War in Europe” is another outstanding, international and truly essential issue from Irish Pages, the island’s premier literary journal. Guest-edited by the highly distinguished Ukrainian-American novelist, essayist and poet Askold Melnyczuk, the prime focus of this major issue is of course Europe’s war in Ukraine.
Much superb Ukrainian writing (from both inside and outside the country) has been assembled. A great deal of translation was involved, including mostly by distinguished poets and translators whose first language is English. All involved view this issue as an “urgent ethical project”.
Since it’s been going on forever, “War in Europe” is also not of course limited to the current war in Ukraine. There are small relevant amounts of writing about the violent twentieth-century history of Ireland (including the Troubles) and of the Balkans, as well as the on Second World War. As with every issue, there will also be a “Portfolio” of images – this time, of course, focussing on the revolutions and war in Ukraine, with both a portfolio of photographs and one of art works.
This is already shaping up as our second most important issue, after “Heaney” (2014), with a likely large global reach given some of the well-known international contributors.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Essays and poems in translation by many of Ukraine’s leading writers and scholars, including Serhiy Zhadan, Yuri Andrukhovych, Serhii Plokhy, Oksana Zabuzhko, Ostap Slyvynsky, Yuliya Musakovska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Jurko Prochasko, Iaroslava Strikha, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Iya Kiva, Oksana Lutsyshyna, Halyna Kruk, Olha Poliukhovych, Artem Chekh & Marjana Savka.
Also work in English from Irish, British and American writers including David Rieff, Carolyn Forché, Timothy Snyder, Amelia Glaser, Marci Shore, Peter Balakian, Christopher Merrill, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Bruce Weigl, Ed Vulliamy, Moya Cannon, Ciarán O’Rourke, Patrick Breslin, Chris Agee, Michael Longley & Mark Cousins.
With further translations from the Irish, Hungarian, Spanish and Belarusian – and much more, including “A Suite of Poems on the Holodomor”.
PLUS: Ukraine: A Love Story & Don’t Close Your Eyes – TWO OUTSTANDING PORTFOLIOS OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART WORKS.
Edited by Chris Agee and Askold Melnyczuk
Keep up to date with Irish Pages
Latest News & Events
“War In Europe” (Volume 12, No 1)
Chris Agee reads ‘Parables of a Summer’, in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast
A reading at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.
The People of Scotland’s Address to World Leaders
A poem was curated by Scotland’s makar Kathleen Jamie in November 2023.
The authors of Darkness Between Stars, poets John F. Deane and James Harpur, interviewed by William Crawley on BBC Radio Ulster’s “Talkback”
The authors of Darkness Between Stars, poets John F. Deane and James Harpur, interviewed by William Crawley on BBC Radio Ulster’s “Talkback