Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

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  • Memorable mastery: on ‘My Hollywood’ by Boris Dralyuk

    Memorable mastery: on ‘My Hollywood’ by Boris Dralyuk

    Tom Branfoot Anachronism is a stylistic quality that governs translator and poet Boris Dralyuk’s debut collection My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022). In both form and subject – the dilapidated past of émigré Hollywood – My Hollywood is motivated by an interwar, formalist style that is objectively anachronistic. Dralyuk, born in Odessa…