Description
Twelve weeks, two countries, one conversation in poetry: Taras Shevchenko and Lina Kostenko beside Canadian poets, in English and Ukrainian.
Each week follows a theme, from love of homeland and the world watching to home and nature, poetry’s purpose and fighting back. Shevchenko’s poems and Pauline Johnson’s are printed in full; poems still under copyright have a poem page with an overview, words to learn and links to read them.
- 12 weekly themes, every page in English and Ukrainian
- About the Poets section
- 336 pages; Large accessible type (Atkinson Hyperlegible), tagged PDF with live contents, alt text on every image, portrait pages
Free sample. Read the opening pages before you buy: download the free sample (PDF).
Free updates. Readers who buy this book receive every revised First Edition free: write to sasha@drokacademy.ca.
Teaching it or reviewing it? Instructors, scholars, librarians, Ukrainian schools and community organizations can request a free review copy, and every student in a course that adopts the book receives it free. Write to sasha@drokacademy.ca.
This is a first edition: a first try, shared to start conversations and build community. It gathers what the author found over 21 years of teaching, and each new edition will be better, like each next offering of a course. Corrections and family stories are welcome at sasha@drokacademy.ca, and anyone unhappy with the book receives a full refund.
The author takes no income from this book. Everything after production costs supports the Love, Care, Share Fund.
About the author
Dr. Oleksandr Kondrashov, PhD, MSW, MEd, Founder, DROKACADEMY. Born in Lviv, Ukraine, and in Canada since 2004, he has taught over 7,000 students across five Canadian universities. DROKACADEMY is a healing and writing space, and its motto guides these books: Love. Care. Share.
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