The NS Poem: Creator, we need an answer
A new poem by the Russian poet Larissa Miller, translated by Rowan Williams, on the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
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Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams is former Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012, and a contributing writer to the New Statesman.
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