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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Babushka
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Notes

  • Author's note: ‘Chernobyl was the site of (one of the) the world’s worst nuclear accident and, for the past 27 years, the area around the plant has been known as the Exclusion Zone. And yet, a community of about 200 people live there – almost all of them elderly women. These proud grandmas defied orders to relocate because their connection to their homeland and to their community are “forces that rival even radiation”.’ Holly Morris, Ted Talk: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it’s home, October 2013
  • This poem is in four numbered parts.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meniscus vol. 11 no. 2 2023 27193078 2023 periodical issue poetry

    'Welcome to Meniscus volume 11, issue 2. We weren’t sure, eleven years ago, if we’d be able to get a new literary journal up and running, but thanks to our contributors and readers, it has after all happened. Thank you for making our work (a) possible and (b) so rewarding.

    'For this issue, there was a very large submissions pile, both poetry and prose. This means that far too much quality work was, necessarily, rejected. The principles for selecting about 60 poems and 18 prose works out of over 1,000 submissions required us to make very difficult decisions. The aim was to produce an issue with a balance of style, voice, and content, and ensuring we include some new writers alongside well-established voices.' (Jen Webb and Ginna Brock: Editorial introduction)

         2023     pg. 12
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Subjects:
  • Chernobyl,
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    Ukraine,
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    Former Soviet Union,
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    Eastern Europe, Europe,
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