Launch reading by Jane Hirshfield (USA) and Maria Stepanova (Russia) with Sasha Dugdale

Join Bloodaxe for this launch reading by Jane Hirshfield and Maria Stepanova, plus Maria's translator Sasha Dugdale, celebrating the publication of their new books.

They will be reading live and discussing their work with the host, Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley. The event will also include readings of poems from the new Bloodaxe anthology Soul Feast, which is also published in March 2024 and which features four of Jane Hirshfield’s poems as well as Sasha Dugdale’s translation of a poem by Elena Shvarts.

To order copies of the poets’ books direct from Bloodaxe, please click on these links (available via the Bloodaxe website from early March). If you are in Ireland or elsewhere in the EU, you can pre-order via Books Upstairs in Dublin:

Jane Hirshfield: The Asking: New & Selected Poems
https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/pro...
(Published in North America by Alfred A. Knopf)

Maria Stepanova (trans. Sasha Dugdale): Holy Winter 20/21
https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/pro...

Neil Astley & Pamela Robertson-Pearce (eds.): Soul Feast: nourishing poems of hope & light
https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/pro...