Basket of Braids by Natalia Litvinova, translated by Kelsi Vanada readings Ezra Pound and Ciaran Carson

Ezra Pound and Ciaran Carson

part of the permanent collection in the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield

Seeing the West through the eyes of young Seivwright

Subtly attuned to the rhythms of the turning world

Basket of Braids by Natalia Litvinova, translated by Kelsi Vanada readings Ezra Pound and Ciaran CarsonThe title of Basket of Braids forms a surprising image. Why would anyone store braided hair in a basket? The women in my family keep the hair they cut off in a basket of braids. Its an ancient tradition, no one can remember who started it. For Belarusian poet Natalia Litvinova, who immigrated with her family to Buenos Aires at the age of ten, this basket of braids symbolises the strength of the bonds between the rural Slavic women who came before her