This week's poetry post on the blog presents a poem by the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, 'A Little Cloud Swims to the Sun', translated by Vera Rich.
Shevchenko is rightly honoured as the father of modern Ukrainian literature, but he was also a folklorist, visual artist and revolutionary.
You can read this wonderful poem and learn more about Shevchenko by visiting https://grammaticus.blog/2023/06/14/a-little-cloud-shevchenko/.
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