Svetlana Ischenko
{{Short description|Ukrainian poet}}
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| native_name = Світлана Вікторівна Іщенко
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| birth_place = Mykolaiv, Ukraine
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| occupation = poet, translator, stage actress, teacher, artist
| language = Ukrainian, English
| nationality = Ukrainian
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| awards = New names of Ukraine and The Golden Harp (Ukraine), Burnaby Writers’ Society Poetry Contest (Canada), The Ivan Koshelivets International Literary Prize (Israel), The Panteleimon Kulish International Literary-Artistic Prize (Ukraine)
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Svetlana Viktorivna Ischenko ({{langx|uk|Світлана Вікторівна Іщенко}}, born July 30, 1969, Mykolaiv, Ukraine) — poet,[http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=12922 Modern Encyclopedia of Ukraine] translator,{{cite book |last= Shuliar |first= Vasyl|script-title=uk:Живлюща сила Ємигії: Літературна антологія Миколаївщини|trans-title= Live Power of Emyhia: Literary Anthology of Mykolaiv Region|language= uk|location= Mykolaiv|publisher= "Іліон", 2014| pages= 212–217|isbn= 978-617-534-289-3}} stage actress,[http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=12922 Modern Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Stage Roles] teacher,[http://ukrainka.org.ua/node/142 Svetlana Ischenko's Biography] artist.[http://ukrainka.org.ua/node/680 Paintings by Svetlana Ischenko]
She is a member of The Ukrainian Writers’ Association (1997) and The National Writers' Union of Ukraine (1998).[http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=12922 Modern Encyclopedia of Ukraine]
Biography
Svetlana Ischenko was born on July 30, 1969, in Mykolaiv,{{cite book |last= Shuliar |first= Vasyl|script-title=uk:Живлюща сила Ємигії: Літературна антологія Миколаївщини|trans-title= Live Power of Emyhia: Literary Anthology of Mykolaiv Region|language= uk|location= Mykolaiv|publisher= "Іліон", 2014|pages= 212–217 |isbn= 978-617-534-289-3}} in the steppe region of the south of Ukraine.
She graduated from Mykolaiv public school number 38. Svetlana pursued her childhood love of music at the Mykolaiv Rimsky-Korsakov Music School, and graduated in piano in 1986. She received a College Diploma in Acting, Stage Directing and Visual Art from the Mykolaiv State College of Culture in 1988. She later attended the Mykolaiv Branch of the Kyiv State University of Culture and Arts and received a BA in Recreation Management and Pedagogy in 1998.[http://ukrainka.org.ua/node/142 Svetlana Ischenko -- Biography]
For several years (1988–2001), Ischenko was a stage actress at the Mykolaiv Ukrainian Theatre of Drama and Musical Comedy.[http://www.maut.com.ua/ Mykolaiv Academy Ukrainian Theatre of Drama and Musical Comedy] She played a number of significant characters from classic Ukrainian and European plays,[http://ukrainka.org.ua/node/654 Photo Gallery of S.Ischenko's Stage Characters] among them Marusia (Marusia Churai by Lina Kostenko), Catherine (Catherine by Taras Shevchenko), Motrya (Kaydash's Family by Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky), Yaryna (Where There are people, There is Sin by І. Tobilevych), Ryna (Myna Mazaylo by Mykola Kulish), Prince (Dregs by Janusz Glovatsky), Julie (The Family Weekend by Jean Poiret), and Countess Rosine (Marriage of Figaro by P. Beaumarchais).[http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=12922 Modern Encyclopedia of Ukraine: S.Ischenko's Stage Roles] Svetlana also created many poetic texts and songs for thematic programs, plays and musical shows for the Mykolaiv Ukrainian Theatre of Drama and Musical Comedy.
A number of Ukrainian composers and singers have created songs using Ischenko's poetry for lyrics—Viktor Ures, Viktor Piatygorsky, Oleksandr Nezhyhai, Olena Nikishenko, Oleksandr Honcharenko, Anna Oliynykova, and others.[http://ukrainka.org.ua/node/417 Songs using Svetlana's poetry on web-portal Zhinka-Ukrainka]
In 2001, Ischenko immigrated to Canada. She lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia.[http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=12922 Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine] Svetlana continues to keep in close contact with Ukraine. She writes in Ukrainian and English. Her literary achievement includes translations.{{cite journal |last= Ischenko |first= Svetlana|script-title=uk:Варіації зі словом "Любов": Антологія канадських поетів |trans-title= Variations on the Word Love: Anthology of Canadian Poets|language= uk |journal= Kyiv |issue= #7–8, 2017|pages= 117–137}} Svetlana Ischenko is a co-translator of English versions of poetry by Dmytro Kremin, winner of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian National Literary Prize.{{cite book |last1= Kremin |first1= Dmytro|last2= translated by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton |title= Poems From the Scythian Wild Field |url= http://www.ekstasiseditions.com/recenthtml/scythianfield.htm |language= en |location= Victoria, Canada |publisher= Ekstasis Editions, 2016 |isbn= 978-1-77171-178-4|year= 2016}}
Ischenko's field of work in Canada is creating and teaching children's programs in visual arts, ballet, creative dance, jazz, hip-hop, and musical theatre at Recreational Centres in North Vancouver.[http://www.nsnh.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Program-Guide-2017-12.pdf North Shore Neighbourhood House, North Vancouver, Program Guide, pp.6-7] She has given poetry readings at the Vancouver Public Library in the “World Poetry Reading Series” and radio interviews on Vancouver's Co-op Radio as well as Voice of America (“Musical Rainbow” by Alexandr Kaganovsky) in the U.S.[http://www.niklib.com/resource/karta.ua?id=64 The M.Kropyvnytskyi Mykolaiv Library: Literary Map of Mykolaiv Region -- Svetlana Viktorivna Ischenko: Biography]
Publications
Ischenko's poems were first published in the Mykolaiv regional newspaper The Soviet Prybuzhia on December 14, 1991.{{cite journal |last= Ischenko |first= Svetlana|script-title=ru:Очарованье Чистоти |trans-title= Enchantment of Purity|language= ru |journal= The Soviet Prybuzhia |issue= December 14, 1991}}
Svetlana's literary work has appeared widely in a variety of publications in Ukraine, including magazines such as Dzvin (Lviv), Kyiv (Kyiv), Gorozhanin (Mykolaiv), Dyvoslovo (Kyiv), Art-Line (Kyiv), Vitchyzna (Kyiv), Kurier Kryvbasu (Kryviy Rih), and Vezha (Kropyvnytskyi), almanacs such as Borviy (Mykolaiv), Buzsky Gard (Mykolaiv), and Osvityanski vitryla (Mykolaiv), and in poetry anthologies such as Pochatky (Kyiv, Smoloskyp Press, 1998) and The Mykolaiv Oberih (Mykolaiv, Mozhlyvosti Kimmerii Press, 2004).[http://www.niklib.com/resource/karta.ua?id=64 The M.Kropyvnytskyi Mykolaiv Library: Literary Map of Mykolaiv Region -- Svetlana Viktorivna Ischenko: Biography]
Svetlana's poems have also been published in Canadian literary magazines such as The Antigonish Review (Antigonish, Nova Scotia),{{cite journal |last= Ischenko|first= Svetlana|title= Svetlana Ischenko: Three Poems |language= uk, en|journal= The Antigonish Review |location= Nova Scotia, Canada |issue= 130, summer 2002 |pages= 12–17}} Lichen (Whitby, Ontario),{{cite journal |last= Ischenko|first= Svetlana|title= Svetlana Ischenko: Clinging to Their Sails|language= en|journal= Lichen|location= Whitby, Ontario, Canada "|volume= 7 |issue= 2, fall–winter 2005|page= 36}} Event (Vancouver, British Columbia),{{cite journal |last= Ischenko|first= Svetlana|title= Svetlana Ischenko: Instead of the Wings of Cranes|language= en|journal= Event |location= New Westminster, B.C., Canada |volume= 33 |issue= 1, spring 2004|page= 46}} and in poetic anthologies such as From This New World (Vancouver, Canada, 2003){{cite journal |last= Ischenko|first= Svetlana|title= Svetlana Ischenko: The Colours of Chagall's Love |language= en|journal= From This New World|location= Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2003 |pages= 25–27}} and Che Wach Choe—Let the Delirium Begin (Lantzville, British Columbia, 2003).{{cite book |author= |title= Che Wach Choe -- Let the Delirium Begin: Anthology of Love Poems |year= 2002 |language= en|location= Lantzville, B.C., Canada |publisher= "Leaf Press", 2003 |isbn= 978-0-9730243-7-1 }}
Ischenko's co-translations of the poetry of Dmytro Kremin, winner of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian National Literary Prize, have appeared in well-known literary magazines such as London Magazine (London, England, 2007), Prism International (Vancouver, Canada, 2007), and Hayden’s Ferry Review (Arizona, US, 2009), in the trilingual collection Two Shores (Mykolaiv, Iryna Hudym Publisher, 2007){{cite book |last1= Kremin |first1= Dmytro |last2= Puchkov |first2= Volodymyr |script-title=uk:Два береги |trans-title= Two Shores |language= uk |location= Mykolaiv |publisher= видавництво Ірини Гудим, 2008 |isbn= 978-966-8592-51-5}} and in the book Poems From The Scythian Wild Field (Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, B.C., Canada, 2016) -- a selection of the poetry of Dmytro Kremin translated into English by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton{{cite book |last1= Kremin |first1= Dmytro|last2= translated by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton |title= Poems From the Scythian Wild Field |url= http://www.ekstasiseditions.com/recenthtml/scythianfield.htm |language= en |location= Victoria, Canada |publisher= Ekstasis Editions, 2016 |isbn= 978-1-77171-178-4|year= 2016}}
{{Quote|text=
…Where a country lies under a willow tree,
Where the steppe spreads wide,
There is your motherland, lad,
The sun and the crepe of the sky.
Where the hellish history of the nation lies deep,
Where the snowball tree and hawthorn grow --
There is your spring water,
The Ukrainian world.
|author= Svetlana Ischenko|title= from the poem "Source"}}
Books of poetry
- 1995 Chorals of the Earth and Sky (Ukrainian Writer—Vyr Press, Kyiv, Ukraine), including A Crane’s Cry, a dramatic play based on the novel by Roman Ivanychuk{{cite book |last= Ischenko|first= Svetlana |script-title=uk:Хорали неба і землі |trans-title= Chorals of Earth and Sky|language= uk|location= Kyiv|publisher= "Український письменник", 1995 }}
- 1998 B-Sharp (Mozhlyvosti Kimmerii, Mykolaiv, Ukraine){{cite book |last= Ischenko |first= Svetlana|script-title=uk:Сі-дієз |trans-title= B-Sharp|language= uk|location= Mykolaiv |publisher= "Можливості Кіммерії", 1998}}
- 2005 In the Mornings I Find a Crane’s Feathers in My Damp Braids (Leaf Press, Lantzville, BC, Canada){{cite book |last= Ischenko|first= Svetlana|title= In the Mornings I Find a Crane's Feathers in My Damp Braids |year= 2005|url= http://www.leafpress.ca/books/In%20the%20Mornings.htm|language= en |location= Lantzville, Canada |publisher= Leaf Press |isbn=978-0-9735920-4-7 }}
- 2019 The Trees Have Flown Up In Couples (Viktor Shvets Publishing House, Mykolaiv, Ukraine){{cite book |last= Ischenko |first= Svetlana|script-title=uk:Дерева злетіли парами |trans-title= The Trees Have Flown Up In Couples |language= uk|location= Mykolaiv |publisher= "Видавництво Віктора Швеця", 2019|isbn= 978-617-7421-80-0 }}
- 2024 Nucleus: A Poet's Lyrical Journey From Ukraine To Canada (Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, BC, Canada){{cite book |last= Ischenko|first= Svetlana|title= Nucleus |year= 2024|url= https://ronsdalepress.com/nucleus-a-poets-lyrical-journey-from-ukraine-to-canada/|language= en |location= Vancouver, Canada |publisher= Ronsdale Press |isbn=978-1-55380-707-0}}
Works of translation
;From Ukrainian into English
- Dmytro Kremin The Horse Constellation (magazine The Malahat Review, issue 188, Victoria, B.C., Canada, 2014),{{cite journal |last1= Kremin|first1= Dmytro|last2= translated by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton|title= The Horse Constellation |language= en|journal= The Malahat Review|location= Victoria, B.C., Canada |issue= 188, Autumn 2014 |page= 99}} The Lost Manuscript (magazine The London Magazine, issue June–July 2007, London, England),{{cite journal |last1= Kremin |first1= Dmytro |last2= translated by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton |title= The Lost Manuscript |journal= The London Magazine|location= London, England |issue= June–July, 2007 | page= 16 }} Don Quixote From the Estuary (magazine Prism International, issue 45:4, Summer 2007, Vancouver, Canada),{{cite journal |last1= Kremin |first1= Dmytro |last2= translated by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton |title= Don Quixote From the Estuary |language= en |journal= Prism International|location= Vancouver, Canada |issue= 45:4, Summer, 2007 | page= 49}} The Tower of Pisa, The Tendra Mustungs' Odyssey, Wild Honey, A Church in the Middle of the Universe, Christmas in Bohopil, The Hunt For the Wild Boar (magazine Hayden's Ferry Review, issue 44, spring-summer 2009, Virginia, Arizona, US).{{cite journal |last1= Kremin|first1= Dmytro|last2= translated by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton|title= Poems From the Scythian Wild Field: Introduction to the Poetry of Dmytro Kremin |language= en|journal= Hayden's Ferry Review|location= Virginia, Arizona, USA |issue= 44, spring–summer 2009 |pages= 48–63}}
- Poems From The Scythian Wild Field (Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, B.C., Canada, 2016) -- a selection of the poetry of Dmytro Kremin translated into English by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton{{cite book |last1= Kremin |first1= Dmytro|last2= translated by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton |title= Poems From the Scythian Wild Field |url= http://www.ekstasiseditions.com/recenthtml/scythianfield.htm |language= en |location= Victoria, Canada |publisher= Ekstasis Editions, 2016 |isbn= 978-1-77171-178-4|year= 2016}}
- Dmytro Kremin The Lost Manuscript (magazine The Walrus, issue June 2022, Toronto, Canada){{cite journal |last= Kremin|first= Dmytro|title= The Lost Manuscript|language= en|journal= The Walrus|location= Toronto, Ontario, Canada |issue= June 2022|page= 28}}
;From Russian into Ukrainian
- Sergei Yesenin Persian Motives in the book B-Sharp (Mykolaiv, "Можливості Кіммерії", 1998){{cite book |last= Ischenko |first= Svetlana|script-title=uk:Сі-дієз |trans-title= B-Sharp|language= uk|location= Mykolaiv |publisher= "Mozhlyvosti Kimmerii", 1998}}
- Alexandr Pushkin To the Fountain of the Bakhchisaray Palace in the book The Trees Have Flown Up In Couples (Mykolaiv, «Видавництво Віктора Швеця», 2019){{cite book |last= Ischenko |first= Svetlana|title= Дерева злетіли парами |trans-title= The Trees Have Flown Up In Couples|language= uk|location= Mykolaiv, Ukraine |publisher= "Видавництво Віктора Швеця", 2019|isbn= 978-617-7421-80-0 }}
- Larisa Маtveyevа (selected poems) in the book The Trees Have Flown Up In Couples (Mykolaiv, «Видавництво Віктора Швеця», 2019){{cite book |last= Ischenko |first= Svetlana|title= Дерева злетіли парами |trans-title= The Trees Have Flown Up In Couples|language= uk|location= Mykolaiv, Ukraine |publisher= "Видавництво Віктора Швеця", 2019|isbn= 978-617-7421-80-0 }}
;From English into Ukrainian
- Seven Canadian poets in translation in Variations on the Word Love: Anthology of Canadian Poets (magazine Kyiv, issue 7-8, 2017, Ukraine){{cite journal |last= Ischenko |first= Svetlana|script-title=uk:Варіації зі словом "Любов": Антологія канадських поетів |trans-title= Variations on the Word Love: Anthology of Canadian Poets|language= uk |journal= Kyiv |issue= 7–8, Autumn 2017|pages= 117–137}}
- Canadian Poetry translated by Svetlana Ischenko (magazine "Soborna Vulytsia" (Cathedral Street), Mykolaiv, December, 2017){{cite journal |last= Ischenko |first= Svetlana|script-title=uk:Канадська поезія |trans-title= Canadian Poetry|language= uk |journal= Cathedral Street |issue= December, 2017}}
Awards
- in Ukraine: The New Names of Ukraine and The Golden Harp, 1995
- in Canada: Burnaby Writers’ Society Poetry Contest, 2003
- in Israel: The Ivan Koshelivets International Literary Prize, 2013{{cite book |last= Shuliar |first= Vasyl|script-title=uk:Живлюща сила Ємигії: Літературна антологія Миколаївщини|trans-title= Live Power of Emyhia: Literary Anthology of Mykolaiv Region|language= uk|location= Mykolaiv|publisher= "Іліон", 2014|pages= 212–217 |isbn= 978-617-534-289-3}}
- in Ukraine: [https://inshe.tv/nikolaev/2020-04-21/524749/?fbclid=IwAR2vPm9CLGI692wO139I7-f6EMAQdGMEBmYmEGC2YsimNF3e5EKoC-zUZ3U The Best Mykolaiv Book of the Year 2019 in Poetry nomination: Svetlana Ischenko The Trees Have Flown Up In Couples, 2019]
- in Ukraine: [https://nspu-com-ua.translate.goog/aktualno/nazvano-laureativ-mizhnarodnoi-literaturno-misteckoi-premii-imeni-pantelejmona-kulisha/?_x_tr_sl=uk&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc#google_vignette The Panteleimon Kulish International Literary-Artistic Prize for Nucleus: A Poet's Lyrical Journey From Ukraine To Canada, 2025]
Visual Art displayed
- Mykolaiv Central Library of Marko Kropyvnytsky, Mykolaiv, Ukraine, 2000 and 2017
- [http://www.ukrainka.org.ua/node/680 Art portal online Ukrainian Woman]
- Fundraiser / Exhibition "My Connections: Ukraine - Canada", The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 22 2023
- Lions Gate Community Centre, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2023 - February 2024
References
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Sources and external links
- [https://esu.com.ua/article-12922 Entry in Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine]
- [http://litnik.org/index.php/poeziya/svitlana-ishchenko Poetry in internet-magazine The Literary Mykolaiv]
- [http://litnik.org/index.php/spetsialnye-vypuski-zhurnala/nashi-pesni Songs using Svetlana Ischenko’s poetry for lyrics available in internet-magazine The Literary Mykolaiv]
- [http://ukrainka.org.ua/svitlana-ischenko Poetry, songs, biography on web-portal Zhinka-Ukrainka]
- [http://ukrainka.org.ua/node/673 Photo Gallery on web-portal Zhinka-Ukrainka]
- [http://ukrainka.org.ua/node/680 Paintings by Svetlana Ischenko]
- [http://www.ekstasiseditions.com/recenthtml/scythianfield.htm Poems From The Scythian Wild Field (a selection of the poetry of Dmytro Kremin translated from Ukrainian by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton)]
- [http://vitchyzna.ukrlife.org/1_2_07ischenko.htm Poetry in Vitchyzna magazine issue 1-2, 2007]
- [http://bukvoid.com.ua/library/svitlana_ishchenko/dumki_zaplutani.../1.html Poetry on Bukvoyid website]
- [http://bukvoid.com.ua/library/svitlana_ishchenko/tri_soneti_z_vinka_sonetiv_zhinka/1.html Three sonnets from a crown of sonnets “A Woman” on Bukvoid website]
- [http://dotyk.in.ua/solomonovo.htm Poetry After the Song of Solomon on Dotyk Slovom website]
- [http://litnik.org/index.php/poeziya Dmytro Kremin re: Svetlana Ischenko (video) on internet magazine The Literary Mykolaiv issue 4 – 2012]
- [http://litnik.org/index.php/spetsialnye-vypuski-zhurnala/yuvilej-poeta-dmitra-kreminya Personal thanks to a Poet -- Dmytro Kremin, an article on the 60th birthday of the poet D. Kremin]
- [http://laginlib.org.ua/mykolaiv/literatura/ystchenko.php Entry in Mykolaiv Regional Viktor Liagin Library for children website]
- [http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2005/Svetlana_Ischenko/Svetlana_Ischenko.htm Poem on Leaf Press, Canada website]
- [http://www.leafpress.ca/books/In%20the%20Mornings.htm Information on chapbook on Leaf Press, Canada website]
- [http://prosvilib.ipsys.net/visnik-tavriyskoyi-fundaciyi-vipusk-4/inna-bereza-dialog-zi-spivvitchizniceyu Interview with S. Ischenko by Inna Bereza, “A Dialogue with a Compatriot” in Prosvita Khersonschyny—Visnyk Tavriyskoyi Fundatsiyi, issue 4, 2007]
- [https://library.mk.ua/litnik/ishhenko-svitlana-viktorivna/ Mykolaiv Scientific-Pedagogic Library: Svetlana Ischenko -- Biography]
- [http://www.niklib.com/resource/karta.ua?id=64 Entry in Mykolaiv Central Marko Kropyvnytskyi Library website]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7kWi43aceI Interview with Svetlana Ischenko, TV channel "Mykolaiv", Ukraine, June 23, 2017]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1UcyEX9Z8M "Poems From the Scythian Wild Field" -- poetry readings at the Marko Kropyvnytskyi Library, TV channel "Mykolaiv, Ukraine June 23, 2017]
- [http://homerandatlantis.com/?p=4469&lang=UK Video and photos from the poetry readings by Dmytro Kremin and Svetlana Ischenko at the Marko Kropyvnytskyi Library, Mykolaiv, Ukraine, June 23, 2017]
- [https://www.facebook.com/groups/538531829629231/permalink/870707419745002/ Paintings by Svetlana Ischenko gifted by the author to the Marko Kropyvnytskyi Library, Mykolaiv, Ukraine]
- {{cite book |last= V.S.Horbatiuk, P.S.Malish, V.C.Mihaylevsky, A.E.Romasiukov|title= Південний Буг: літературний альманах |trans-title= Southern Buh: Literary Almanac|language= uk|location= Khmelnytsky|publisher= 2019| pages= 256|isbn= 978-617-513-593-8}}
- {{cite book |last= V.Shuliar, K.Kartuzov |title= #ЄТекстМиколаївщини: літературно-художня антологія|trans-title= #Є Text of Mykolaiv: Literary Anthology|language= uk|location= Mykolaiv|publisher= "Іліон", 2020| pages= 216|isbn= 978-617-534-594-8}}
- {{cite journal |last= Ischenko|first= Svetlana|title= Svetlana Ischenko: Portraits in Free-Verse and Sonnets|language= Ukrainian|journal= Kyiv|location= Kyiv, Ukraine |issue= 1–2, 2022|page= 111-118}}
- {{cite book |last1= Kemp|first1= Penn|last2= Sitoski|first2= Richard-Yves|title= Poems in Response to Peril -- an Anthology in Support of Ukraine |language= en |location= London, Ontario, Canada |publisher= Pendas Productions/Laughing Raven Press, 2022 |isbn= 978-1-927734-37-7| page= 51-53|year= 2022}}
- {{cite journal |last= Kremin|first= Dmytro|title= The Lost Manuscript|language= en|journal= The Walrus|location= Toronto, Ontario, Canada |issue= June 2022|page= 28}}
- [https://thewalrus.ca/the-lost-manuscript/ Canadian Literary Magazine "The Walrus", June 2022: Dmytro Kremin "The Lost Manuscript" translated by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYfk-GGSU2Q "Dmytro Kremin: A Portrait" poem by Svetlana Ischenko (video)]
- [https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Flisten%2Flive-radio%2F1-91-the-early-edition%2Fclip%2F16004832-north-vancouver-fundraiser-supports-ukrainians-affected-russian-invasion&data=05%7C01%7C%7C24d1270bc02b4c83478208dbd7420f4e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638340450943316542%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4LO3fVeFo3EY1YrxoB5x8Uk5TQ9g4Twc%2BYv1PNR%2BE2I%3D&reserved=0 An interview "North Vancouver fundraiser supports Ukrainians affected by Russian invasion" about an arts and poetry fundraiser "My Connections: Ukraine - Canada" organized by Svetlana Ischenko at the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, The Early Edition CBC Radio, Vancouver, August 22 2023]
- [https://ronsdalepress.com/nucleus-a-poets-lyrical-journey-from-ukraine-to-canada/ "Nucleus: A Poet's Lyrical Journey From Ukraine to Canada" by Svetlana Ischenko, Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, BC]
- [https://abcbookworld.com/writer/ischenko-svetlana/ BC BookWorld interview, winter 2023-2024]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp6fiaa8rks "Nucleus" - Book Trailer]
- [https://www.cbc.ca/books/nucleus-by-svetlana-ischenko-1.7126024 CBC Books, spring 2024]
- [https://alllitup.ca/theres-a-poem-for-that-svetlana-ischenko-nucleus/ All Lit Up: An interview with poet Svetlana Ischenko, April 23 2024]
- [https://litukraina.com.ua/svitlana-ishhenko-meni-hotilosja-rozpovisti-svitu-pro-ukrainu-ii-istoriju-i-kulturu-cherez-svij-osobistij-dosvid-i-pogljad/ The Literary Ukraine:"Світлана Іщенко: Мені хотілося розповісти про Україну, її історію і культуру через свій особистий досвід і погляд"(interview in Ukrainian), Jan.12 2025]
- [https://thebcreview.ca/2025/01/23/2431-ischenko-harding-russell/ The British Columbia Review: Resilience, transformation, memory (Jan.23 2025)]
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