Category: In Focus
In Focus
“On the seventh day of direct observations”
by Kateryna Kalytko
In this poem by Kateryna Kalytko, at a time of destruction, the Ukrainian poet marvels at the simplicity and the nobility of language.
In Focus
“Child, hold your doll, hold your teddy bear, hold your kitty.”
by Marjana Savka
In this poem, on a train winding through a burnt world towards longed-for shelter, an adult pleads to a desperate child to hold their teddy, to not cry.
Fiction
The Bureaucrat’s Day
by Balla
While buying some “superb” illegally produced sausages, a bureaucrat tries to come to terms with the thing that lives in his office.
In Focus
Then Without the Body
by Béla Markó
“collapse, rejection, resurrection, / this is what we all longed for, / this broken bread”—Béla Markó, in Anna Bentley’s translation.
