Russia is Burning Yang Lian through this lens

through this lens

To a Fault

Death and the Changing of the Seasons

however small – that ‘To feel the evening coming up / and to stream one way or another’ can be the difference between this life and that

Published in army newspapers and broadcast on the radio between 1942 and 1945

Russia is Burning Yang Lian through this lensThe Second World War occupies a special place in Russian memory. Between the German invasion in June 1941 and the liberation of Berlin in May 1945, over 26 million Soviet civilians, servicemen and women were killed fighting the Nazis. The war also occupies a special place in the history of Russian poetry. For Anna Akhmatova the Red Army was defending the Russian language as well as Russian soil (we will defend you, Russian speech). Poems written by