Lydia Grigorieva Explained

Lydia Grigorieva (Ukrainian: Лідія Григор'єва, born 1945) is a Ukrainian poet who now lives in London. Her work has been widely translated and she has worked with the BBC World Service, Russian radio and television and the British Library.^[1]

Also described as a "photo-artist", Grigorieva uses a synthesis of poetry and photography in her work. The premiere of her Photo-Poetry took place at the State Pushkin Museum in Moscow.^[2] In 2011 she took part in a seminar at the London Book Fair titled At the Crossroads of Culture: Russian Writers Living in London.

Grigorieva read her work for the British Library's Dual Cultures, Between Two Worlds: Poetry and Translation project which explores the work of poets living in the UK whose first language is not English.^[3]

Films written by Grigorieva include:^[1]

• Tsvetaeva in London
• Gumilev in London
• Skriabin in London

External links

• Lydia Grigorieva reading her poetry at the British Library Archival Sound Recordings

Notes and References

1. Watts, Stephen., ed. Mother Tongues: Non English-Language Poetry in England. London: King's College London, 2001, p.295.
2. http://www.gbrussia.org/archive.php?id=575 Photo-Poetry by Lydia Grigorieva
3. http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/Dual-Cultures-Between-Two-Worlds-Poetry-and-Translation-4db.aspx Dual Cultures, Between Two Worlds: Poetry and Translation