Sasha Dugdale (@sashadugdale.bsky.social)

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:27 PM

Maria Stepanova on language and displacement: www.pushkinhouse.org/pages/in-bet...

@anthropology.net Oct 8, 2026, 3:15 PMReposted by @sashadugdale.bsky.social

Six pottery decoration styles became one in Copper Age Ukraine while towns grew. In Neolithic Germany, diversity rose first. A new PLOS One model asks what pot variety really measures. #Archaeology #Neolithic #Trypillia www.anthropology.net/p/trypillia-...

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 9:23 PM

I could listen to Cecilia Vicuña all day:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 1:05 PM

A very good length 🩶

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:38 AM

Looking on tripadvisor for that Parisian square where Madame Lamort weaves her winter bonnets of fate from the restless paths of the earth

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 10:26 AM

Long dog !!

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 2:10 PM

That should be BC, of course.

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 2:06 PM

Pasiphae dandling the young minotaur (from a cup found at Vulci in Italy, dated 375-350 AD)

Red figures on black background. Pasiphae sits slightly side on with a young child on her lap. The child has the head of a bull. At her feet a swan and on the wall by her a basket hanging from a hook.

@wwborders.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:28 PMReposted by @sashadugdale.bsky.social

Author Maria Stepanova and translator Sasha Dugdale discuss THE DISAPPEARING ACT, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read the next interview in our 2026 National Book Awards series at the link: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 11:22 AM

‘Witness’ from Anthony Caro’s antiwar Kenwood Series (2003-2004) at Templon Gallery.

Anthony Caro
Witness (The Kenwood Series), 2003 - 2004 depicts a very large human form, very rough and primitive. It has child like qualities and proportions despite its hugeness, and seems to be hiding its face behind its hands although it is an approximate and almost abstract form of figuration. It stands behind several l-shaped pieces of steel that resemble a tumbledown picket fence.

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:14 AM

This is a marvellous book by Egana Djabbarova. ‘My Dreadful Body’ is the memoir of growing up Azerbaijani in Russia – told through chapters focussed on parts of the body. It’s translated by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social and published in UK by Linden Eds. Funny, human and engaging, but also devastating.

Front cover of My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova translated by Lisa C. Hayden: pink frame with an abstract shape of pink and some green connected splodges of paint: perhaps a fruit resembling a hand with fingers

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:03 AM

Ferdinand Mount in @lrb.co.uk reminding us that 28,000 have died trying to cross the Med since 2014 ‘the death toll of a medium-sized war’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@wwborders.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:13 PMReposted by @sashadugdale.bsky.social

Maria Stepanova and @sashadugdale.bsky.social on THE DISAPPEARING ACT, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read about their “ongoing conversation” in translating the novel, its echo of Leonora Carrington paintings, and more: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

At the top, “Words Without Borders” in white text and “77th National Book Awards” in red text over black textured background. On the right side, images of the book cover of THE DISAPPEARING ACT, author Maria Stepanova and translator Sasha Dugdale. Blue and white text on the left reads: “National Book Awards Interview: Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale on THE DISAPPEARING ACT.” White text on the bottom left reads: “But it was simply a canceled train and a long afternoon in an unknown city that made me wonder if I could stay there forever. After that, I didn't even notice how I started writing; it was like putting down a dream, trying to do it while the memory still lingers.”

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 1:51 PM

After Rilke’s sudden death at the end of 1926, Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva wrote two works addressed to Rilke that sit among the great European modernist poems. You can read my translations of them and a creative essay in Tsvetaeva ‘27 @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social

@pavilionpoetry.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 1:30 PMReposted by @sashadugdale.bsky.social

This #NationalPoetryDay, we're thrilled to announce our 2027 collections.

Martha Sprackland's Question to the Creatures
Sasha Dugdale's Tsvetaeva '27
Jemma Borg's Before & After the Night

The collections publish in spring and are now available to preorder on our website: bit.ly/pavilionpoetry

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 3:49 AM

Such joyful observation of life in Daphne Astor’s posthumous ’Honour’ published by Hazel Press.

Part 3 of a poem called ‘Late July’ reads
The black pug sleeps
like the shaman
after a long flight.
He ignores the column
of red ants walking
around and around
his curly tail.

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 1:07 PM

Maria Stepanova is reading and discussing her @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social beauty The Disappearing Act with me on 27 October In London www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...

@remediosvaro.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 2:42 PMReposted by @sashadugdale.bsky.social

Star Maker
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20018

"Star Maker" by Remedios Varo illustrates a figure in a mystical setting, meticulously crafting stars at a small table within a surreal structure. This artwork reflects Varo's fascination with alchemy and the metaphysical, embodying her intricate style and visionary imagination.

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:46 PM

Possibly more ridiculous than bleak in this instance :)

@sashadugdale.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 2:37 AM

Top shagger Byron v lesser shagger Yeats is probably going to be the Guardian’s only article about poetry this month www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...