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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
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Bio


Anatoly Kudryavitsky lives in Dublin, Ireland, and in Reggio di Calabria, Italy. His poems appear in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, The North, The Prague Revue, Plume, BlazeVox, The Honest Ulsterman, Cyphers, Stride, etc. His most recent poetry collections are "The Two-Headed Man and the Paper Life" (MadHat Press, USA, 2019) and "Scultura Involontaria" (Casa della poesia, Italy, 2020; a bilingual English/Italian edition of his selected poems). His new collection entitled "Sky Sailing" is due from Salmon Poetry, Ireland, in 2022. His latest novel, "The Flying Dutchman", has been brought out by Glagoslav Publications, England, in 2018. In 2020, he won an English PEN Translate Award for his anthology of Russian dissident poetry 1960-1980 entitled "Accursed Poets" (Smokestack Books, 2020). He is the editor of SurVision poetry magazine.


Anatoly Kudryavitsky


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The Art of Unskying People

The storm, its conception of rationality
pretences up
defences down

Nothingness
shows its anthropoid fabrics
Eventuality branches out

This sky underfoot
the posthumous fog

As if we were
our darkness

Don't gentle into the wind
walk me to your anger