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a Kind of Refugee / 31.08.2023
In lieu of a regular dispatch, I’d like to share three poems by Victoria Amelina that I translated for the London Ukrainian Review…
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a Kind of Refugee / 19.08.2023
There are Polish flags everywhere when I arrive on August 15. It’s Armed Forces Day—a Polish national holiday. A small party has gathered at Anka’s…
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a Kind of Refugee / 10.08.2023
Dear Readers, Dear Friends, That I’m far from Ukraine is not the only reason for my silence here over the past few weeks. I’ve signed a book contract to…
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a Kind of Refugee / 23.07.2023
Last week I got on a train to Poland to start a long journey west. I was underslept, thanks to the liberal missile barrage russia sent to Kyiv the night…
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a Kind of Refugee / 09.07.2023
The past couple weeks have been emotional. Some nights I feel wrecked, as if I’d been drinking. When I try to remember what I did that evening: nope, no…
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a Kind of Refugee / 25.06.2023
Less than three weeks have passed since russia blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam in the part of Ukraine’s Kherson region it has occupied. Villages…
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a Kind of Refugee / 06.06.2023
One rainy evening in Kyiv, Irtsia and I are on a stroll. “What do you do during the air raid alarms?” has become a common question. You can’t interrupt…
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a Kind of Refugee / 25.05.2023
Walking past my neighborhood Irish pub on the way home this evening, I spotted my dear friend M and her partner K sipping drinks on the summer terrace…
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a Kind of Refugee
a newsletter from Ukraine about moving from place to place, dancing between flight and fight
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