Yevgeny Onegin at the Pushkin Club
On Dec 14, 7.15 pm, Stanley Mitchell will be reading from his outstanding translation of Yevgeny Onegin. This will be published in due course by Penguin Classics:
The house is full; the boxes brilliant;
Parterre and stalls - all seethes and roars;
Up in the gods they clap, ebullient,
And, with a swish, the curtain soars.
Semi-ethereal and resplendent,
To the enchanting bow obedient,
Ringed round by nymphs, Istomina
Is still; one foot supporting her,
She circles slowly with the other,
And lo! she leaps, and lo! she flies,
Like fluff she flies across the skies
Blown by Aeolus, god of weather;
She twists, untwists; her little feet
Swiftly against each other beat.
The Pushkin Club, 46 Ladbroke Grove, W11 (close to Notting Hill Gate and Holland Park tubes). £4 (£3 concessionary) for non-members.
