Gleb Shulpyakov is a Russian poet, essayist, novelist, and translator of the poetry of Ted Hughes, Robert Hass, and W. H. Auden. His first book to appear in English translation, A Fireproof Box (translated by Christopher Mattison), was published in 2011 by Canarium Books, which also published his second, Letters to Yakub, in 2014 (with the generous support of the Institute for Literary Translation in Russia). He is also the author of several novels, including Tsunami (2008) and Dante Museum (2013), as well as numerous essays, travelogues, and criticism  

“Gleb Shulpyakov is not only the inheritor of a great tradition and anti-tradition of Russian poetry, but also a new internationalist who understands the value of the local, of the immediate. In this poetry full of wonder and respect, of sharp and insightful investigation of cultural heritage, the creative process, ways of seeing, and the ironies of the self in day-to-day life, we see something new and unique. This poet will mark his time. Gleb Shulpyakov is one of the handful of poets writing now I would confidently term ‘a poet of genius’.” —John Kinsella