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Biography
Publications Since 1992
Plays and Theatre Work
Cambridge Chekhov Company
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Some Published Poems
Recent Writing
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George Calderon: Edwardian Genius
by Patrick Miles



Anton Chekhov: A Short Life
by Patrick Miles



Mikhail Gromov:
Chekhov Scholar and Critic

by Patrick Miles



A Moth on the Fence:
Memoirs by Nikolay Andreyev

translated by Patrick Miles



What Can We Hope For?:
Dialogues about the Future

John Polkinghorne and Patrick Miles



Edna’s Diary: Writing again after Stroke
compiled by Patrick Miles

Publications Since 1992

2024








Six poems in HQ Poetry Magazine, no. 63, 2024, p. 34

‘Foreword’, in Keith Dewhurst, Short Plays (Whitstable, Green Heart Press, 2024), p. vi-xi

Five poems in HQ Poetry Magazine, no. 62, 2024, p. 40

2022





‘Communist dogma’, The Times (Letters),
29 July 2022, p. 30

Anton Chekhov: A Short Life (Cambridge, Sam&Sam, 2022), 121 pp.

2021






Seven poems in HQ Poetry Magazine, no. 55&56, 2021, p. 32

Edna's Diary; Writing again after Stroke, compiled by Patrick Miles (Cambridge, Sam&Sam, 2021), 46 pp.

2020










Poem in Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society, 30, no.1, February 2020, p. 31

Eight poems in HQ Poetry Magazine, no. 53, 2020, p. 11

‘Christ's resurrection – and ours, John Polkinghorne talks to Patrick Miles about life after death’, Church Times, 9 April 2020, p. 26-27

2019


















‘The War Is Over’, The Signal,
February 2019, p. 12-13

Poems in Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society, 29, no.1, February 2019, p. 51

‘Joseph Brodsky in Leningrad’, ‘Emigration’, PN Review, 247, May-June 2019, p. 17-20

Poems in HQ Poetry Magazine, no. 51&52, 2019, p. 11

John Polkinghorne and Patrick Miles, What Can We Hope For?: Dialogues about the Future (Cambridge, Sam&Sam, 2019), 104 pp.

Poem in Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society, 29, no.4, November 2019, p. 8

2018


George Calderon: Edwardian Genius (Cambridge, Sam&Sam, 2018), 544 pp.

2017

Poem in Presence, 59 (November)

2016


‘Plant’s magic juice’, The Times (Letters),
2 December 2016, p. 32

2015










‘Cromwell pedigree’, The Times (Letters),
22 January 2015, p. 35

‘George Calderon (2 December 1868-4 June 1915’, Trinity College University of Oxford Newsletter, Summer 2015, p. 15

‘It depends what you mean by “gaps”’, John Polkinghorne interviewed by Patrick Miles, Church Times, 9 October 2015, p. 24-26

2014




‘Laurence Binyon and Sandwich’, The Signal, November 2014, p. 9

Poem in Presence, 51 (December)

2012


Poems in Presence, 45 (January) and 47 (December)

2010








‘Chekhov at 150: The “Hampstead Connection”’, The London Magazine June/July 2010, 98-102

‘George Calderon’, TLS (Letters), 9 July 2010,
p. 6

‘Faggot fancy’, The Times (Letters), 24 September 2010, p. 31

2009




Nikolay Andreyev, A Moth on the Fence: Memoirs of Russia, Estonia, Czechoslovakia and Western Europe, translated by Patrick Miles (Kingston-upon-Thames, Hodgson Press, 2009), 257 pp.

2008








Brief Lives: Anton Chekhov (London, Hesperus Press, 2008), 117 pp.

‘Early Chekhov: The Making of a Totalitarian Consensus 1928-59, and Some Current Questions’, Slavonica, 14 (2008), no.1, 18-43

Poem in Presence, 35 (May)
2007







Aleksei Remizov’s “Prud” (“The Mere”): The Final Text of the Novel ed. by Roger J. Keys (Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialities, 2004), pp. 389’, Slavonica, 13 (2007), no.2, 186-87 [review]

Poems in Presence, 31 (January) and 32 (May)

2006






Mikhail Gromov, Chekhov Scholar and Critic: An Essay in Cultural Difference, 2nd edn (Nottingham, Astra Press, 2006),
132 pp.

Poems in Presence, 28 (January) and 29 (May)

2005









‘Milne, Lesley, Zoshchenko and the Ilf-Petrov Partnership: How They Laughed (Birmingham: Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, 2003), pp. xiv + 296’, Slavonica, 11 (2005), no. 1, 97-98 [review]

Mikhail Gromov, issledovatel' Chekhova i kritik. Esse v kontekste raznosti kul'tur (Moscow, IMLI RAN, 2004 [2005]), 142 pp.

2003








‘C. Kelly, Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. xviii + 164’, Slavonica, 9 (2003), no. 1, 47-48 [review]

Mikhail Gromov, Chekhov Scholar and Critic: An Essay in Cultural Difference (Nottingham, Astra Press, 2003), 132 pp.

2001







‘Peter Henry, Vladimir Porudominskii, and Mikhail Girshman (eds.), Vsevolod Garshin At the Turn of the Century: An International Symposium in Three Volumes (Oxford: Northgate Press, 2000), Vol. 1: pp. xv + 275; Vol. 2: pp. 300; Vol. 3: pp. 248’, Slavonica, 7 (2001), no. 2, 106-07 [review]

2000















‘O liubvi k tvortsu’ (‘Love of the creator’), in Mir Filologii (Posviashchaetsia Lidii Dmitrievne Gromovoi-Opul’skoi) (The world of philology (Festschrift for L.D. Gromova-Opul’skaia)), edited by M.I. Shcherbakova and M.A. Mozharova (Moscow, ‘Nasledie’, 2000),
pp. 162-64

‘A Conversation with Bakhtin’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 36, no. 4 (October 2000), 438-49

‘Cheshire Cats in the Theatre: a Translator and the Fringe Experience’, New Theatre Quarterly, 16, part 4 (NTQ 64) (November 2000), 359-63

1999




























‘William Gerhardi [sic], “The Impact of Chehov [sic] on the English Theatre”’, edited and with notes by Patrick Miles, from the Gerhardie Papers in the University Library, Cambridge, Slavonica, 5 (1999), no. 2, 24-31

Anton Chekhov, Early Stories, translated by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher (Oxford and New York, OUP, 1999), with a critical bibliography by Patrick Miles, 205 pp. [First published by John Murray, 1982]

Anatoly Smeliansky, The Russian Theatre after Stalin, translated by Patrick Miles (Cambridge, CUP, 1999), 232 pp.

‘Doubts about the European Union’, Contemporary Review, 275 (July 1999), no. 1602, 12-14

‘Unanswered questions about “Europe”’, Contemporary Review, 275 (August 1999), no. 1603, 74-76

‘Jean Stafford Smith (ed.), In the Mind’s Eye. The Memoirs of Dame Elizabeth Hill (Sussex: The Book Guild, 1999), pp. vii + 520’, Slavonica, 6 (1999/2000), no. 1, 136-37 [review]

1998



‘Leavis and Bakhtin’, Cambridge Review, November 1998, 42-46, and Salisbury Review, Autumn 1998, 38-42

1997-98


Poems in Curlew, Gare du Nord, Hanging Loose, Iota, London Magazine, Oasis, Tandem

1997






‘Chekhov na angliiskoi stsene’ (‘Chekhov on the English Stage’), in Chekhov i mirovaia literatura (Chekhov and World Literature), edited by Z.S. Papernyi and E.A. Polotskaia, Literaturnoe nasledstvo, 100 (Moscow, ‘Nauka’, 1997), pp. 493-534

1996






















‘Singing in the forest’ [Review of Thomas Gaiton Marullo, editor, Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore, 1920-1933, A Portrait from Letters, Diaries and Fiction (Chicago, IL: Dee; distributed in the UK by Gazelle), 332 pp.], TLS, 22 March 1996, p. 27

‘The scents of a southern city’ [Review of Irina Ratushinskaya, The Odessans, translated by Geoffrey Smith (Sceptre), 410 pp.], TLS, 26 April 1996, p. 20

E.D. Goy, Excursions. Essays on Russian and Serbian Literature, edited and with a foreword by Patrick Miles (Nottingham, Astra Press, 1996), 110 pp.

‘You, you, you, you’ [Review of Jean Benedetti, editor and translator, Dear Writer…Dear Actress… The love letters of Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov (Methuen), 292 pp.], TLS, 20 December 1996, p. 36

1995
















‘Letters from George Calderon in Russia to his parents in England, 1895’, edited and with notes by Patrick Miles, Slavonica, 2 (1995/1996), no. 1, 7-25

‘Chekhov, Shakespeare, the Ensemble and the Company; Peter Hall interviewed by Patrick Miles’, New Theatre Quarterly, 11, no. 43 (August 1995), 203-10

‘C.J.G. Turner, Time and Temporal Structure in Chekhov. Birmingham Slavonic Monographs No. 22. Department of Russian Language and Literature, University of Birmingham, 1994. viii + 113 pages’, Irish Slavonic Studies, 16 (1995 (1996)), 111-12 [review]

1994





















‘The Speckled Wood, Pararge aegeria L. (Lep.: Satyridae): an important character in Doctor Zhivago’, Entomologist’s Record, 106, nos 1-2 (25 January 1994), p. 12

Duck-Hunting, Last Summer in Chulimsk: Two Plays by Aleksandr Vampilov, translated and with an introduction by Patrick Miles (Nottingham, Bramcote Press, 1994), 158 pp. [For more English translations of Russian literature see www.bramcotepress.co.uk]

‘Petrushevskaya’ and ‘Vampilov’, in International Dictionary of Theatre, 2, Playwrights, edited by Mark Hawkins-Dady (London, St James Press, 1994), pp. 740-42, 992-94

‘Aleksandr Vampilov: A Playwright whose Time is Now’, British East-West Journal (December 1994), 7-8

1993





















‘Petrushevskaia’, in Contemporary World Writers, edited by Tracy Chevalier (London, St James Press, 1993), pp. 109-11

‘Chekhov and the Company Problem in the British Theatre’, in Chekhov on the British Stage, edited and translated by Patrick Miles (Cambridge, CUP, 1993), pp. 185-193

Chekhov on the British Stage, edited and translated by Patrick Miles (Cambridge, CUP, 1993), 258 pp.

‘European Theatre 1960-1990: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Edited by Ralph Yarrow. London: Routledge, 1992. Pp. ix + 255’, Journal of European Studies, 23 (1993), 326-27 [review]

‘Robert Leach, Vsevolod Meyerhold. CUP, 1993. xiv + 223 pp.’, Scottish Slavonic Review, Autumn 1993, 145-46 [review]

1992


















‘The Orator’, story by Anton Chekhov translated by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher, Intercity, February 1992, 47-48

Duck Hunting ’ and ‘Ivanov ’, in International Dictionary of Theatre, 1, Plays, edited by Mark Hawkins-Dady (London, St James Press, 1992), pp. 205-06, 375-76

‘National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746-1900. Edited by Laurence Senelick. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991. xxx + 480 pp.’, Irish Slavonic Studies, 13 (1992), 192-93 [review]

‘Extracts from Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard/The Days of the Turbins, First publication in English, translated by Patrick Miles’, Comparative Criticism, 14 (1992), 247-57