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  • Motherfield

    Poems & Belarusian Protest Diary

    by Julia Cimafiejeva ...
    Translated by Hanif Abdurraqib, Valzhyna Mort ...
    A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet’s insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus.Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone during her childhood. The book opens with a poet’s diary recording the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since its 2020 presidential ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Zekamaron

    One Hundred Days from Behind Bars and Eyelashes

    by Maxim Znak ...
    Translated by Jim and Ella Dingley ...
    'It's a terse account of painful experience, prison, bewilderment; hugely atmospheric and extremely funny – full of dry wit and small biting observations.' - Anna Vaught'Maxim Znak's message is that wry humour and humanity trump the cruel absurdities of the regime (...) These stories, one hundred of them, none longer than three pages, have echoes of early Chekhov, Zoshchenko and Samuel Beckett' - ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Body

    by Valzhyna Mort ...
    "Mort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort's poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended."-Library Journal"A one-of-a-kind work of passion and insight."-Midwest Book Review"Mort's style-tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism-recalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska."-Los Angeles TimesValzhyna Mort is a dynamic ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Music for the Dead and Resurrected

    Poems

    by Valzhyna Mort ...
    WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York TimesIn her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history.With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort's Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

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