The Elixir Poetry Podcast
British poet Helen Wing has spent the past 20 years living between the UK, China and the Middle East, experiencing first-hand the human impact of poetry across borders. On The Elixir Poetry Podcast, she asks anonymous individuals from around the world to read the poem that has touched them the most, and to unveil why. (Each episode includes original music)
The Elixir Poetry Podcast
19. "The KGB Could Have Got Me For Reading This Poem". Growing Up In The Soviet Union (with artist Varvara Keidan Shavrova)
In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Varvara Keidan Shavrova about a poem called ‘An autumn evening in the modest square’ by the Russian poet, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
They discuss:
- Growing up in the Soviet Union
- The difficulty of being a migrant living away from your original home
- Families hiding their intellectualism from the state and their peers in the Soviet Union
- Vavara’s parent’s special way they brought her up in Soviet Russia
- Timelessness, Eternity, Space and Time
- Joseph Brodsky
Discover poetry through the heart of another…
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