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Poet Margarita Zelenskaya

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Margarita Zelenskaya is a talented poet from Adelaide, a “new Bella Akhmadulina”, as she is sometimes called. In the interview Margarita speaks about the tendencies of modern poetry, shares her admiration of the poetical greats and explains why meaningful poetry can be only written in your mother tongue


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Margarita Zelenskaya is a talented poet from Adelaide, a “new Bella Akhmadulina”, as she is sometimes called. In the interview Margarita speaks about the tendencies of modern poetry, shares her admiration of the poetical greats and explains why meaningful poetry can be only written in your mother tongue



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