#thecontinentalliterarymag
In this long poem by Ukrainian poet Iryna Shuvalova, language is found empty and ineffective, and the poet still more powerless than before.
In a crowded elevator leaving the 17th floor, six-year-old Ricardo and his mother meet two complete strangers, when an incident occurs.
Craving is a heightened state of longing, which always carries with it a sense of hopelessness, of the impossibility of fulfilment.
A poem by the award-winning Polish poet Tomasz Różycki, translated into the English by Mira Rosenthal, for the Continental Literary Magazine’s focus of “Crave”.
Written before Russia’s invasion, Hungarian writer Diána Vonnák explores the lives sucked into the Russo-Ukrainian war since 2014.
A poem by the British poet and translator, born in Budapest, George Szirtes.
George Szirtes introduces our poets, and considers the topography of craving and its synonyms; the terrain, landmarks, and boundaries.
In this essay, Lina Mounzer ponders how violent conflicts over the possession of spaces transform the world in which an artist creates.
