Out of one of the most troubled countries in the world comes a passionate, eloquent voice into the agora of world poetry. The Ukrainian poet Dmytro Kremin sings powerfully and insightfully the ethos of the Ukrainian people. At the same time, he exhibits a remarkable alertness to the role of the poet in the contemporary global reality. Poems from the Scythian Wild Field presents the first book-length English translation of poetry by this major Ukrainian literary figure, who, with his intellectual acuity, his deep and wide-ranging grasp of history, myth, and culture, and his encompassing life-affirming imaginative vision, offers work of great authenticity and weighty momentum. This volume will be of immense value for readers of important contemporary international poetry.

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Svetlana Ischenko is an award-winning poet, translator, former actress and teacher. She was born in Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, where she established herself as a stage actress and poet before immigrating to Canada in 2001. She is the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, essays and dramatic plays in Ukrainian and English. In Canada, her poems have been published in The Antigonish Review and Event and were included in the anthology Che Wach Choe/Let the Delirium Begin (Leaf Press) and the chapbook In the Mornings I Find a Crane’s Feathers in my Damp Braids (Leaf Press). She lives with her family in North Vancouver, B.C.

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Russell Thornton's books include The Fifth Window, A Tunisian Notebook, House Built of Rain (shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the ReLit Award for poetry), The Human Shore, and his latest collection, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain. He won the League of Canadian Poets National Contest in 2000 and The Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize in 2009. His poetry has appeared in several anthologies, among them Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry, Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems, the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2011 Anthology, and Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012. His poems have twice been featured on Vancouver buses as part of BC's Poetry in Transit. For several years he divided his life between Vancouver and Aberystwyth, Wales, and then Salonica, Greece. For the past number of years he has lived where he was born and grew up, in North Vancouver.

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