The Blockade Swallow Lewis Buxton Samuel Shimon

Samuel Shimon

nettles and cobwebs

First published in 1973 and out of print for many years

a petition started by a Black performance artist begins making the rounds in the art community

And everywhere she goes

The Blockade Swallow Lewis Buxton Samuel ShimonOlga Berggolts (1910 1975) was a Soviet poet, playwright and journalist, whose daily broadcasts on Leningrad radio during the Nazi blockade of the city (1941 44) became a symbol of the city's refusal to surrender. One and a half million people starved to death during the siege, including Berggolts husband. In 1943 she was awarded the Defence of Leningrad medal. After the War, the publication of Berggolts writings about the suffering of ordinary