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Holy Winter 20/21 by Maria Stepanova, trans. by Sasha Dugdale<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE SPRING 2024</b> Kae Tempest and their writing has anThe outbreak of Covid 19 cut short Maria Stepanova's stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor the world had withdrawn from her, time had "gone numb". When she awoke from this state, she began to read Ovid, and the shock of the pandemic dissolved into the voices and metaphors of an epochal experience. Her book length poem Holy Winter 20 21, written in a frenzy of poetic inspiration, speaks of winter and war,