Recycled

· Skaryna Press
Ebook
100
Pages
Eligible

About this ebook

A bilingual collection by a Belarusian award-winning poet, Hanna Komar. The poems in the book are strongly personal, yet they are reflections of the reality familiar to many of us. Love, friendship, self-exploration, childhood memories, fears – Hanna finds new ways to speak about the things we have heard so much about, and her voice is frank. The thread connecting the poems in this collection is being a woman in a strongly patriarchal society. These poems are a rebellion, they touch, provoke, embarrass, get under your skin, but leave hope that the wounds will be healed, the home will be found, and love will live in it.

About the author

Hanna Komar is a Belarusian poet, translator, writer.

Hanna’s poetic work lays bare the experience of being a girl, then a young woman, growing up in a strongly patriarchal authoritarian country.

She has published five poetry collections: “Страх вышыні” [Fear of Heights], a collection of docu poetry “Мы вернемся” [We’ll Return] and “Вызвалі або бяжы” [Set Me Free or Run] in Belarusian, as well as a bilingual collections Recycled and Ribwort and a non-fiction book "Калі я выйду на волю" [When I'm Out of Here]. 

Her work has been translated into Polish, Ukrainian, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Czech, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Danish and Russian. She translates her work into English. 

A member of PEN Belarus and an honorary member of English PEN. Freedom of Speech 2020 Prize laureate from the Norwegian Authors’ Union.

Hanna has an MA in Creative Writing: Writing the City from the University of Westminster. She is taking PhD at the University of Brighton, exploring how poetry can support Belarusian women to share experiences of gender based violence and patriarchy.

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