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Poet and translator Nina Murray explores the life and myth of Larysa Kosach, the Ukrainian feminist thinker and poet known by her pen-name Lesya Ukrainka. With the richness of fairytale, Murray weaves a story following several generations, the women that carry them and the losses that follow them. These are poems about blood, homelands, and three miraculous thimbles.
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Published 26th February 2024
“On this night we can be certain
the mules and oxen will speak
in tongues that make sense
in the twisting worm-holes
of our human ears.”
Poet and translator Nina Murray explores the life and myth of Larysa Kosach, the Ukrainian feminist thinker and poet known by her pen-name Lesya Ukrainka. With the richness of fairytale, Murray weaves a story following several generations, the women that carry them and the losses that follow them. These are poems about blood, homelands, and three miraculous thimbles.
‘Delve into the world spoken by women, follow their voices, unravel the tapestry they weave. Through her poetry, Nina Murray casts a spell in a language that transcends linguistic borders. A translator of cultures, she skilfully turns the strange into the familiar and the familiar into the unknown.’ Olesya Khromeychuk, author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister
With a startle of blood and enticing lyric, Nina Murray explores what it means to be a woman residing in history. Gannota is about language and mythmaking, the haunted and the pastoral but also, importantly, Gannota is about what women carry. A beguiling pamphlet, I read it in a gasp. — Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
