www.facebook.com/pages/Arkadia-International-Bookshop-Ian-Bourgeot/114962855198875

Dear friend of Arkadia,

You are invited to What is happening in contemporary Russian poetry?
A lecture by poet and critic Darya Sukhovey (St. Petersburg)on Saturday 1.8 at 1pm at Arkadia (Nervanderinkatu 11)

Welcome!

Warm regards,

Ian
www.arkadiabookshop.fi

– A donation of €3 (or more!) to fund the bookshop is suggested and would be most welcome. Arkadia wouldn’t exist without this act of generosity. If you have no loose change or coins we gladly accept payment via Visa Electron or Mastercard etc. !

Russians hold their poetry in great esteem. Classics such as Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky are read, interpreted, quoted and translated by generation after generation.

But what about the poetry that is being written right now? Who is writing, what is written, for whom? These are not easy things to grasp, for the country is wide and the terrain is varied.

An expert view will be given by Darya Sukhovey, a prominent poet, critic and curator from St. Petersburg, Russia’s cultural capital.

The lecture will be given in Russian with interpretation into English or Finnish according to demand.

The lecture is organized with support from Nuoren Voiman Liitto in anticipation of the Runokuu Poetry Festival (21.8.-27.8.) which will feature performances by young Russian poets, and the Helsinki Book Fair (22.10.-25.10). The Book Fair’s main theme this year is Russian literature.

Information: Pauli Tapio
prjtapio@gmail.com
+358 50 433 9184