Covid “fails to get settled status”When Britain decided to announce freedom day on 19 July the rest of the world was horrified. Scientists warned that relying on good old…Jul 24, 2021Jul 24, 2021
A semi surreal poem set in Crimea… make of it what you willLetter from Crimea 4Apr 13, 2021Apr 13, 2021
Lukashenko’s nuclear threat… (speech given at “The New Chernobyls on Europe’s Doorstep?”The story of Belarus and nuclear power really begins in North Ukraine on the 26 of April 1986 when unit 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear plant…Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021
Published inCuriousPoetry on Fire: My Family, The Executed Renaissance, and the WestThe girl whose gold shoes glittered with paste diamonds stood in the aisle of the plane, her arms outstretched, as the aircraft juddered…Dec 9, 2020Dec 9, 2020
To kill a songbird- the Soviet Genocide of Ukrainian literatureThis article was adapted from material previously published on Euromaidan Press and in Modern Poetry in TranslationNov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020
Steve Komarnyckyj on Ukraine’s “Executed Renaissance”- a personal reflectionThe priest descended the steps from the aircraft and collapsed to his knees to kiss the tarmac. It was 1992, and my father and I were on…Nov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020
Dancing with Stalin- the Holodomor Genocide in UkraineThe article below is adapted from a speech given to Cambridge University Ukrainian Society on 6 February 2009.Nov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020
Andrii Telizhenko the unlikely spy?In March 2020 Andrii Telizhenko angrily denied being a Russian spy when federal authorities warned that he could be spreading Russian…Nov 17, 2020Nov 17, 2020
The Trump coup I predicted is underway- what happens now?Okay I’m not clairvoyant. I predicted that Trump would launch a coup in my previous piece because it was being planned in plain sight on…Nov 6, 2020Nov 6, 2020