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Medal with a image of Hryhorii Skovoroda
23rd August 2014
Poetry, Politics, Ukraine

Peppered Mead & Gnostic Democracy: Gifts of the Spirit, from Ukraine

With pleasure, and no small amount of astonishment, I announce today that for my ‘poetry and essays about Ukraine’ – the latter published here on the blog – I have earned a place on the list of recipients of the 2014 Hryhorii (Gregory) Skovoroda Award (honestly, in section 7, there I am: Наомі Фойл). Hryhorii Skovoroda was a 18th century…

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Hryhorii Skovoroda Ihor Pavlyuk Lyuddmyla Pavlyuk Stephen Komarnyckyj

19th July 2014
Israel-Palestine, Poetry, Politics, Ukraine

Two Watermelons: Inner Reflections & a Letter from Ukraine

1. Rebelling against the old Arab adage, the Palestinian novelist Emile Habiby ‘believed that it was possible, and even useful, to “carry two watermelons under one arm” – that is, to take up both literature and politics’. The risk, of course, being that you will drop and smash both. Everyone who knows me knows I care about Palestine. And Ukraine.…

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Astrology Emile Habiby Gaza Lyuddmyla Pavlyuk Tarot

10th June 2014
Ukraine, Uncategorized

A Green Letter from Ukraine

I have been wondering about Green politics in Ukraine: as all over the world, it seems that the more energy self-sufficient a country is, the better it will be able to resist dependency on any foreign power. My correspondent in Lviv, political analyst Lyuddmyla Pavlyuk, answered my questions, and with her permission I share her letter here. Green Voices in…

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Chernobyl Green politics Lyuddmyla Pavlyuk Ukraine

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