Poetry is difficult to recreate in another language, as distinct from literal translation. But here Sergei Roy captures the urgency and tumbling succession of images of Boris Pasternak's original, ...

Najwa Zebian is one of a new generation of poets who have become popular through social media and, particularly, Instagram, with almost a million followers hanging on to her every poem. She has ...

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