Product Description
Tatiana Shcherbina has been described as 'one of the most significant figures in contemporary Russian poetry'. In her recent work, the elegant and ironic narrator meditates on love, disappointment and loss against the backdrop of Russia's social collapse. This is a selection of her poetry and prose.
About the Author
tatiana shcherbina was born in Moscow in 1954. Before 1999 she worked on Radio Liberty and four of her collections were published in samizdat. Since 1999 she has published six volumes of poetry and prose in Russia and two poetry collections in French, her adopted mother tongue. She has been a journalist and a reviewer for several Russian newspapers. In 2002 she took part in the Poetry International at Londons Royal Festival Hall and in a UK tour by Russian women poets. Her poems appeared in a special Russian womens poetry issue of Modern Poetry in Translation, and a selection of her earlier poetry has been published in the US by Zephyr Press.