Alison wrote:
"look how the star of poetry has waned in the former Soviet Union under the
new free enterprise freedoms"
You may be interested to read the following from the periodical, Index on
Censorship - which features an article by Peter Porter and Harriet Harvey
Wood and states:
"When political tyranny wanes it often allows other social discriminations
to emerge. Religious orthodoxy, sexual intolerance, whether of women or
homosexuals, racial hatred - these continue to flourish. It is because such
world-wide interference still exists for writers that Index has devoted an
issue to their stifled works, last year to fiction, this year to poets. You
will discover in the following pages poems from many lands which have at
some time or other been suppressed, though not necessarily for directly
political reasons."
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/issue597/porter.html
Some of the writing of the poets mentioned can be read at:
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/recent2.html#poetry
The Index also published some of the incredible poetry of the contemporary
Russian poet Alina Vituknovskaya (b.1974, jailed on disputed drug related
charges - which can also be found at:
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/398/alina.html
regards,
maria
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