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Ales’ Plotka (Baisan)

Poet

Алесь Плотка

Gomel author and cult reggae, frontman of the band “Sož”. The author of the idea of ​​the symbol “Vershnica”, a feminized version of the Belarusian historical coat of arms “Pagonia”.

He is the author of two books of poetry: “Bison” (2015, Minsk, “Knigazbor”) and “Lotus on Asphalt” (2020, Kyiv, “Lyuta Sprawa”). Translated from the Ukrainian book “Papers” by Yurko Izdryk (2020, Minsk, “Goliaths”) and Ivan Semesyuk “Adventures of Baboon Thomas” (2017, Kyiv, “Lyuta Sprawa”), poems by Ukrainian poets.

Pioneer of Belarusian “digital poetry”. Together with musicians Vlad Buben and Leonid Narushevich, he released a number of music albums in duet and trio format (2012-2020). Voiced the works of the Belarusian “Shot Renaissance”. The program “1937” (2018) on the poems of the poets of the thirties was recorded and presented on the First Channel of the state radio. The album “Z nazhom na Sontsa” (2019) based on the poem “When the mud settles” by Todar Klyashtorny was recorded there. Organizer of the reading and broadcasting of the translation of “Onegin” found after 80 years (2017).

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