Survival of the Wittiest
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the scholars Janet Todd and Derek Hughes to revisit the life and work of Restoration England\\u2019s first woman of letters, the playwright Aphra Behn, who \\u201cseems formed for our noisy, sex-obsessed times\\u201d; the translator, poet and critic Sasha Dugdale considers Russian protest poetry and the rise of Galina Rymbu; plus, literary festivals rebooted.
\\u2018The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn: Volume IV: Plays, 1682\\u20131696\\u2019, edited by Rachel Adcock, et al
\\u2018F Letter: New Russian feminist poetry\\u2019, edited by Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky and Ainsley Morse; translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse, Alex Karsavin, Helena Kernan, Kit Eginton, Valzhyna Mort and Kevin M. F. Platt
\\u2018Life In Space\\u2019 by Galina Rymbu; translated by Joan Brooks
Valzhyna Mort\\u2019s translation of the poem \\u2019Summer\\u2019, read by Sasha Dugdale, also appears at - www.granta.com/summer-gates-of-the-body
\\u2018The Scar We Know\\u2019, a bi-lingual edition of Lida Yusupova\'s poetry with introductions by Oksana Vasyakina and Ainsley Morse, has just been published by Cicada Books
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