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19. "The KGB Could Have Got Me For Reading This Poem". Growing Up In The Soviet Union (with artist Varvara Keidan Shavrova)
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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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