Name: A Reading by Eugene Ostashevsky
Start: 2025-12-28T17:30:00+00:00
Location: 64A Kensington Church street, W8 4DB London, United Kingdom

Eugene Ostashevsky is an American poet and translator who was born in Leningrad, grew up in New York, and now lives in Berlin. His poems are translingual in that they emphasize divergences among languages and cultures. He will be reading from his most recent collection, The Feeling Sonnets, which examines the relationship between multilingualism and emotions. Published in the UK by Carcanet, it was described by Gwyneth Lewis as “an exhilarating and witty enquiry into the designs that language has on us.” His previous book, The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (NYRB Poets, 2017), discusses communication difficulties between pirates and parrots. As translator and scholar, Ostashevsky edited and translated over a dozen collections of experimental and avant-garde writing, mainly from the Russian, including OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern UP, 2006) and Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (with Matvei Yankelevich; NYRB Poets, 2013). His poetry has appeared in the Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, Best American Poetry, Asymptote, PNR, Schreibheft, and other journals in the US and Europe.