Recently, the role of poets in Ukrainian society has been actively
changing. Poets are forming public opinion, reinterpreting the most urgent social
issues in their poems. My paper considers language as a cultural and political agent in the poetry volume of Alexander Kabanov, as well as contemporary
language policy in Ukraine. The focus is on bilingualism in the poetry of
Kabanov, i. e., features of the use of Russian and Ukrainian in his poetry.
Aleksandr Kabanov (1968), a leading Russian-speaking Ukrainian poet, presents
in his poetry collection the poems written primarily between 2014 and
2017. He raises such topics as the military conflict in Donbas, the accession of
Crimea, as well as the place of the Russian language in modern Ukrainian society
and poetry. Transcript from my interview with Alexander Kabanov is also
used in the paper. The interview was conducted in the editorial office of “SHO”
magazine in Kiev on 24 April, 2018, in order to clarify the author’s understanding
of the concepts of “poetry”, “politics”, “social media” and their interrelationships
in the contemporary public discourse of Ukraine.
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