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You are warmly invited to an evening to mark the publication of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF RUSSIAN POETRY, edited by Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski and Boris Dralyuk:
March 19, 5.30-7 pm in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's.
Then drinks till 8 pm in the RESC Library, Main Building, St Antony's.
The evening will include poems by Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lev Ozerov and Boris Slutsky. Translator/readers will include Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, Irina Mashinski, Gerry Smith, James Womack.
This is the first Penguin anthology of Russian verse since Dmitri Obolensky’s volume of 1962.
Further information: http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/books/the-penguin-book-of-russian-poetry/9780141198309/
And Robert Chandler’s introduction can be read here:
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