Meet the Poet Hilary 2020 with Galina Rymbu

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Teddy Hall’s Meet the Poet series presents a reading by Russian Poet, Galina Rymbu with translations by Helena Kernan.

Galina Rymbu is a poet, critic, translator, journalist, curator, philosopher and feminist. Born in Omsk, Russia in 1990, she now lives in Lviv, Ukraine. She graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow and also studied at the European University in St Petersburg. She edits an online journal dedicated to feminist literary theory ‘F-Pismo.’ Her poems have been translated into English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Ukrainian, Spanish, Latvian, Romanian, Swedish and Polish. She has been published in journals including ‘The New literary Review’ (Russia) Воздух (Russia), Translit (Russia), N+1, Arc Poetry, The White Review, Berlin Quarterly, Music&Literature, Punctum, Helikopter, Círculode poesía, Asymptote, Powder Keg and others. Her poetry collections include ‘Передвижное пространство переворота’ (Арго-риск, 2014), WhiteBread (NY, After Hours LTD, 2016), ‘Времяземли’ (Харьков,изд-воkntxt, 2018), ‘Жизньвпространстве’ (Москва,изд-во«Новоелитературноеобозрение», 2018), Kosmiskais prospekts (Латвия, Ozolnieki: Literature Without Borders, 2018), Tijd van de aarde (Амстердам, UitgeverijPerdu, 2019). Rymbu also translates poetry from Ukrainian into Russian.

Helena Kernan graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2016 with a BA in Russian and French. Since then, she has lived in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kyiv, where she has worked with a documentary theatre collective, the Ukrainian Centre for Civil Liberties and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Helena translates contemporary poetry from Russian into English and is the English-language editor of the online historical memory platform Imprisoned Youth. Her translation of ‘Only You, Chechnya’ by Elena Kostyleva was published in the journal Modern Poetry in Translation in 2017. She is currently a graduate student in Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, where she is working on contemporary poetry, post-socialist memory and performance art in the Russian-speaking world.

This reading is free and open to the public.

For queries, contact erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk