21-05-2025
Apocalyptic sunsets at the дача by Svetlana Sterlin
The closing poem of Svetlana Sterlin's debut collection, these verses revisit bucolic childhood scenes of her family's rural Russian village and questions the meaning of childhood, adult autonomy, and the meaning we attach to cultural labels.
Svetlana Sterlin lives and writes in Meanjin, where she also works as a swimming coach. She was the winner of the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award, and her debut poetry collection If Movement Was a Language is out now with Vagabond Press.
