Mailing List


Maria Stepanova
MARIA STEPANOVA is a Russian poet and the author of the poetry collection War of the Beasts and the Animals and the novel In Memory of Memory, both translated by Sasha Dugdale and published in 2021. In Memory of Memory was recently shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Articles Available Online


Ovid Void

Poetry

Issue No. 32

Maria Stepanova

Eugene Ostashevsky

Poetry

Issue No. 32

If anyone in your global city still holds me, exile, in memory, Know that I died as soon as they read out the sentence. I live...

READ NEXT

poetry

November 2014

Lay and Other Poems

Pere Gimferrer

TR. Adrian Nathan West

poetry

November 2014

Ode to Venice Before the Sea of Theaters (from Arde el mar, 1966)   The false cups, the poison,...

feature

October 2012

Pressed Up Against the Immediate

Rye Dag Holmboe

feature

October 2012

The author Philip Pullman recently criticised the overuse of the present tense in contemporary literature, a criticism he stretched...

Essay

March 2019

Dreaming Reasonably: on Jenny George

Rachael Allen

Essay

March 2019

In Neil Marshall’s 2005 horror film The Descent, a group of women go spelunking and become trapped deep underground...

 

Get our newsletter

 

* indicates required