Selected Poems

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is the fearless spokesman of his generation in Russia. In verse that is young, fresh, and outspoken he frets at restraint and injustice, as in his now famous protest over the Jewish pogrom at Kiev.

But he can write lyrically, too, of the simple things of humanity – love, a birthday, a holiday in Georgia. And in ‘Zima Junction’ he brilliantly records his impressions on a visit to his home in Siberia.