Stephen Komarnyckyj
@komarnyckyj.bsky.social
PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
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Peter Hughes, Iris Colomb, Caleb Parkin (@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social), Natalie Whittaker (@natalie-whittaker.bsky.social), Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Suzanne Conway (@suzanneconwaypoet.bsky.social), Steve Komarnyckyj, Hannah Silva.
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Peter Hughes, Iris Colomb, Caleb Parkin (@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social), Natalie Whittaker (@natalie-whittaker.bsky.social), Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Suzanne Conway (@suzanneconwaypoet.bsky.social), Steve Komarnyckyj, Hannah Silva.
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A translation I published in Index on Censorship a while ago as a thread... I hope you enjoy it and buy the magazine
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03064220241306640
No Catcher In The Rye: Hryhoryi Kosynka The Socialist Cossack
By Stephen Komarnyckyj for Index on (1/55)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03064220241306640
No Catcher In The Rye: Hryhoryi Kosynka The Socialist Cossack
By Stephen Komarnyckyj for Index on (1/55)
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A translation I published in Index on Censorship a while ago as a thread... I hope you enjoy it and buy the magazine
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03064220241306640
No Catcher In The Rye: Hryhoryi Kosynka The Socialist Cossack
By Stephen Komarnyckyj for Index on (1/55)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03064220241306640
No Catcher In The Rye: Hryhoryi Kosynka The Socialist Cossack
By Stephen Komarnyckyj for Index on (1/55)
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"For Russians, good or bad, the war&Ukraine are usually all about them. That is why now, more than ever, we must work to recover 🇺🇦 culture as a whole from its marginalization."
@komarnyckyj tells about his life mission of voices silenced by Russia 📖
@komarnyckyj tells about his life mission of voices silenced by Russia 📖
Why I translate Ukraine’s silenced poets
For Russians, good or bad, the war and Ukraine are usually all about them. That is why now, more than ever, we must work to recover Ukrainian culture as a whole from its marginalization.
euromaidanpress.com
February 10, 2024 at 11:00 PM
"For Russians, good or bad, the war&Ukraine are usually all about them. That is why now, more than ever, we must work to recover 🇺🇦 culture as a whole from its marginalization."
@komarnyckyj tells about his life mission of voices silenced by Russia 📖
@komarnyckyj tells about his life mission of voices silenced by Russia 📖
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The one area where it is most difficult to be constantly successful is failure. Steve Komarnyckyj. Not quote of the Day.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
The one area where it is most difficult to be constantly successful is failure. Steve Komarnyckyj. Not quote of the Day.
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An important thread from "The War Artist" (Kalyna Language Press 2016, M. Butchenko, trans S. Komarnyckyj) describing a Ukrainian from the Donbas in Germany encountering two Russians in 2014. We should have listened to what Ukrainians were saying long ago. (1/16)
February 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
An important thread from "The War Artist" (Kalyna Language Press 2016, M. Butchenko, trans S. Komarnyckyj) describing a Ukrainian from the Donbas in Germany encountering two Russians in 2014. We should have listened to what Ukrainians were saying long ago. (1/16)
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A visceral account of Donbas coal mining and the binge drinking culture of the miners as seen through the eyes of the protagonist of "The War Artist" by Maksym Butchenko, translated into English by Stephen Komarnyckyj and published by Kalyna Language Press. (1/100)
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A visceral account of Donbas coal mining and the binge drinking culture of the miners as seen through the eyes of the protagonist of "The War Artist" by Maksym Butchenko, translated into English by Stephen Komarnyckyj and published by Kalyna Language Press. (1/100)
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They say it's tough at the top but it's far fucking tougher at the bottom. Steve Komarnyckyj. Not Quote of the Day.
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
They say it's tough at the top but it's far fucking tougher at the bottom. Steve Komarnyckyj. Not Quote of the Day.
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A crazy poem about trees from Night Music (Bohdan Ihor Antonych translated from the Ukrainian by Steve Komarnyckyj)
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A crazy poem about trees from Night Music (Bohdan Ihor Antonych translated from the Ukrainian by Steve Komarnyckyj)
I had the opportunity to sue the IEA and wrote to you guys but sadly … @goodlawproject.org it might have helped shape the climate now
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I had the opportunity to sue the IEA and wrote to you guys but sadly … @goodlawproject.org it might have helped shape the climate now
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Firstly, because in our revolutionary terminology it means deserter and, secondly, I am one, comrade.
So there you are: when, I thought, the sun begins seeking deserters I won't go to the village, it's dangerous (this is customary with absconders) the levadas2 too, luckily it's Sunday, (13/55)
So there you are: when, I thought, the sun begins seeking deserters I won't go to the village, it's dangerous (this is customary with absconders) the levadas2 too, luckily it's Sunday, (13/55)
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Firstly, because in our revolutionary terminology it means deserter and, secondly, I am one, comrade.
So there you are: when, I thought, the sun begins seeking deserters I won't go to the village, it's dangerous (this is customary with absconders) the levadas2 too, luckily it's Sunday, (13/55)
So there you are: when, I thought, the sun begins seeking deserters I won't go to the village, it's dangerous (this is customary with absconders) the levadas2 too, luckily it's Sunday, (13/55)
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The fragmentary style of Kosynka's writing, sympathy with ideologically imperfect characters and the Ukrainian language contributed to his death. One hundred years later the voice of this author who was betrayed by a history he could not fully understand speaks to our own time. (10/55)
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The fragmentary style of Kosynka's writing, sympathy with ideologically imperfect characters and the Ukrainian language contributed to his death. One hundred years later the voice of this author who was betrayed by a history he could not fully understand speaks to our own time. (10/55)
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He, Kornyi Dizik, who has adopted as his surname a derogatory term for a deserter,
meets an old girlfriend who married a landowner for security but who too is losing her niche in a chaotic, invaded country. (9/55)
meets an old girlfriend who married a landowner for security but who too is losing her niche in a chaotic, invaded country. (9/55)
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
He, Kornyi Dizik, who has adopted as his surname a derogatory term for a deserter,
meets an old girlfriend who married a landowner for security but who too is losing her niche in a chaotic, invaded country. (9/55)
meets an old girlfriend who married a landowner for security but who too is losing her niche in a chaotic, invaded country. (9/55)
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And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.
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Auden's just the tip of the iceberg. Check out this sampler page from my site for a tour of alliterative poems by noted authors:
alliteration.net/samplers/not... #alliterative #poetry #famous #authors #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/samplers/not... #alliterative #poetry #famous #authors #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #alliterativeverse
Noted Authors: Alliterative Poems by Famous Poets and Writers
Between the mid 19th and early 21st centuries, many prominent poets and writers have written poems in alliterative verse, including Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, and Richard Wilbur.
alliteration.net
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Auden's just the tip of the iceberg. Check out this sampler page from my site for a tour of alliterative poems by noted authors:
alliteration.net/samplers/not... #alliterative #poetry #famous #authors #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/samplers/not... #alliterative #poetry #famous #authors #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #alliterativeverse
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Ears of corn whispered, she tugged her apron shyly, threw some small apricots to me and , with a quiet, timid sadness, said, :
“I'll go to my mothers. He went to the council and is now their hostage, also they won't let people go anywhere…"
I delayed Ulyana by asking for the twentieth or (46/55)
“I'll go to my mothers. He went to the council and is now their hostage, also they won't let people go anywhere…"
I delayed Ulyana by asking for the twentieth or (46/55)
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Ears of corn whispered, she tugged her apron shyly, threw some small apricots to me and , with a quiet, timid sadness, said, :
“I'll go to my mothers. He went to the council and is now their hostage, also they won't let people go anywhere…"
I delayed Ulyana by asking for the twentieth or (46/55)
“I'll go to my mothers. He went to the council and is now their hostage, also they won't let people go anywhere…"
I delayed Ulyana by asking for the twentieth or (46/55)
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She bowed low on the track and rolled away with the green oat grass into a cheerful Chornoslyvka and her mother's place.
Ding... oh ring out, Steppe! I lay for a long time and listened to my heart ringing in time with the bells of the steppe. (49/55)
Ding... oh ring out, Steppe! I lay for a long time and listened to my heart ringing in time with the bells of the steppe. (49/55)
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
She bowed low on the track and rolled away with the green oat grass into a cheerful Chornoslyvka and her mother's place.
Ding... oh ring out, Steppe! I lay for a long time and listened to my heart ringing in time with the bells of the steppe. (49/55)
Ding... oh ring out, Steppe! I lay for a long time and listened to my heart ringing in time with the bells of the steppe. (49/55)
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Hordyna's grave mound still burns with sunshine before me, it is Ulyana's red scarf and I... when I remember my deserter's life...
Are you asking about Matvyi Kiyanchuk? (52/55)
Are you asking about Matvyi Kiyanchuk? (52/55)
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Hordyna's grave mound still burns with sunshine before me, it is Ulyana's red scarf and I... when I remember my deserter's life...
Are you asking about Matvyi Kiyanchuk? (52/55)
Are you asking about Matvyi Kiyanchuk? (52/55)
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From a sequence on Caedmon in "The August Rain".... www.amazon.co.uk/August-Rain-... #Poetry
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From a sequence on Caedmon in "The August Rain".... www.amazon.co.uk/August-Rain-... #Poetry
Being blocked by people I have never interacted with... guys at least let me earn that dubious honour by trolling you, abusing Trumpie, saying Farage looks like a cross between a toad and a scrotum...
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Being blocked by people I have never interacted with... guys at least let me earn that dubious honour by trolling you, abusing Trumpie, saying Farage looks like a cross between a toad and a scrotum...
A translation I published in Index on Censorship a while ago as a thread... I hope you enjoy it and buy the magazine
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03064220241306640
No Catcher In The Rye: Hryhoryi Kosynka The Socialist Cossack
By Stephen Komarnyckyj for Index on (1/55)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03064220241306640
No Catcher In The Rye: Hryhoryi Kosynka The Socialist Cossack
By Stephen Komarnyckyj for Index on (1/55)
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A translation I published in Index on Censorship a while ago as a thread... I hope you enjoy it and buy the magazine
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03064220241306640
No Catcher In The Rye: Hryhoryi Kosynka The Socialist Cossack
By Stephen Komarnyckyj for Index on (1/55)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03064220241306640
No Catcher In The Rye: Hryhoryi Kosynka The Socialist Cossack
By Stephen Komarnyckyj for Index on (1/55)
From a sequence on Caedmon in "The August Rain".... www.amazon.co.uk/August-Rain-... #Poetry
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From a sequence on Caedmon in "The August Rain".... www.amazon.co.uk/August-Rain-... #Poetry
A poem from "The August Rain" which is "the articulation of what it means to be human"... books.google.de/books/about/...
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A poem from "The August Rain" which is "the articulation of what it means to be human"... books.google.de/books/about/...
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A poem on the legacies of Crimea, rich and Ukrainian.
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A poem on the legacies of Crimea, rich and Ukrainian.
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indextrious.blogspot.com/2023/08/epis... a wonderful review of my translation of Episodic Memory by Liubov Holota. The book would make a lovely Christmas present for anyone who appreciates literature.
Episodic Memory
Episodic Memory / Liubov Holota trans. from the Ukrainian by Stephen Komarnyckyj Kalyna Language Press, 2015, c2008. 228 p. I'm finishing ...
indextrious.blogspot.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
indextrious.blogspot.com/2023/08/epis... a wonderful review of my translation of Episodic Memory by Liubov Holota. The book would make a lovely Christmas present for anyone who appreciates literature.
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Tickling trout, Ukraine and the legacy of the Circassian Genocide a vast crime committed by Russia that cries out to heaven for justice. #poetry
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Tickling trout, Ukraine and the legacy of the Circassian Genocide a vast crime committed by Russia that cries out to heaven for justice. #poetry