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With the support of our readers, the special publication of the Ukrainian Institute London has grown into a regular journal which covers the literature, art, politics, and history of Ukraine bringing the country closer to readers in the English-speaking world.

By becoming a donor of the London Ukrainian Review, you will help us produce attractive visual content to accompany textual materials and reach wider audiences. We will use your donations to enhance our communication and marketing efforts, and design the printed issue, which will collect the best writing published in the London Ukrainian Review during the year.

 

We are grateful to the following individuals who have supported our work through the publication’s precarious first years and helped us secure the journal’s future: Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Dennis Ougrin and Oksana Litynska, Artem Shevalev, Stanislav Suprunenko, Anna Morgan, Larissa Blavatska, Taras Nebeluk, Olia, Golnoosh Nour, Josie von Zitzewitz, Mykhailo Ziatin, Molly Flynn, Uilleam Blacker, Yuliya Komska, Ana Parejo Vadillo, Larysa Bolton, Georgia Clarke, Linda Gough, Oksana Jajecznyk, Ursula Phillips, Myrna Kostash, Mary Van Nortwick, Peter Bennett, and generous anonymous supporters.

 


Image: Odesa Sea Port. Photo by Yevhenii Chasovenko.


Iya Kiva, ‘a frozen sea’

Author: Iya KivaTranslationTranslator: Amelia GlaserTranslator: Yuliya Ilchuk

a frozen sea of people rolls stones around its mouth
this dead language of a time we’ll turn to
when the wind cuts life’s thread like a flower […]

trans. by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

Maksym Kryvtsov, ‘Amid voicing’

Author: Maksym KryvtsovTranslationTranslator: Helena Kernan

Amid voicing
and amid silence
among the trees and the insects
and a fearsome metal seagull. […]

trans. by Helena Kernan