Irish Pages: War in Europe

“War in Europe” is an essential issue from Irish Pages, the island’s leading literary journal.

The prime focus is the war in Ukraine, guest edited by the highly distinguished Ukrainian-American novelist Askold Melnyczuk.

Much Ukrainian writing (from both inside and outside the country) has been assembled. A great deal of translation is involved, including by distinguished poets and translators whose first language is English. All involved view this issue as an “urgent ethical project”.

“War in Europe” is not limited to the current war in Ukraine. There will also be small relevant amounts of writing about the violent twentieth-century history of Ireland (including the Troubles) and of the Balkans, as well as the on Second World War.

As with every issue, there will also be a “Portfolio” of images – this time, of course, exclusively on the war in Ukraine.

Askold Melnyczuk is a highly distinguished Ukrainian-American novelist, short-story writer and poet as well as the Founder and Editor of the celebrated American journal Agni. He has published four novels which have variously been named a New York Times Notable, an LA Times Best Books of the Year, and an Editor’s Choice by the American Library Association’s Booklist. His work has appeared inThe Threepenny Review, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Times Literary Supplement (London), The Antioch Review, The American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry, The Los Angeles Times, The Harvard Review and elsewhere. He has taught at Boston University, Harvard, Bennington College and currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Chris Agee is a poet, essayist and editor. He is the author of Next to Nothing, shortlisted in Britain for the 2009 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, Blue Sandbar Moon and Trump Rant.