{"id":16163,"date":"2026-02-16T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?p=16163"},"modified":"2026-02-22T07:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:47:43","slug":"there-wont-be-a-culmination-poetry-from-wartime-kyiv-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/announcements\/there-wont-be-a-culmination-poetry-from-wartime-kyiv-released\/","title":{"rendered":"There Won&#8217;t Be a Culmination: Poetry from Wartime Kyiv Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/there-wont-be-a-culmination\/\">View in Bookstore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/there-wont-be-a-culmination\/\">There Won&#8217;t Be a Culmination: Poetry from Wartime Kyiv<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/stanislav-belsky\/?v=a906dcd34dae\">Stanislav Belsky<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2>Translated by olga mikolaivna, Tatiana Retivov, and Anna Shershnyova<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16167\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/announcements\/there-wont-be-a-culmination-poetry-from-wartime-kyiv-released\/attachment\/stanislav-belksy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-5000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1537468584&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;27&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stanislav Belksy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stanislav-Belksy-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/>Now shipping March 10, 2026, this collection brings together Ukrainian poet Stanislav Belsky\u2019s wartime and pre-war poems in a bilingual (Russian\/English) edition. While his wartime work acutely represents the human experience of being stuck in place during these illogical, suspended and isolated times, the prewar poems present an awareness of the building tension and portents of what is to come. Unlike many Ukrainian poets after Russia\u2019s invasion, Belsky continues to write in Russian, as a form of resistance against unquestioned nationalism, insisting on a multilingual Ukraine; Russian, after all, is his mother tongue.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;In his poems both before and since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Stanislav Belsky is a master of minimalism, his short forms registering and bearing witness to the everyday. His poetry is &#8216;an insidiously expanding\/conspiracy against the eternal,&#8217; a space for soberly encountering reality and &#8216;enumerating a list of the dead\/like a rusted bathtub.&#8217; Tatiana Retivov, Anna Shershnyova, and olga mikolaivna carefully guide the Anglophone reader through the ever-present siren wailing and the &#8216;grinding of discourse,&#8217; re-presenting these texts in their stark precision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Venya Gushchin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now shipping March 10, 2026, this collection brings together Ukrainian poet Stanislav Belsky\u2019s wartime and pre-war 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You can read an interview with Bill in Jacket2 about the press here: https:\/\/jacket2.org\/commentary\/lavender-ink-interview Bill is also the co-founder of the New Orleans Poetry Festival (nolapoetry.com).","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/"]}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/belsky-front-cover-splash.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16174,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163\/revisions\/16174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}