Akhmetiev, Ivan Alekseevich

He graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University , worked as an engineer, a watchman, a janitor, a fireman, a worker in a bakery, a librarian ... Poems were distributed in samizdat , including under the pseudonym Ivan Alekseev. Under the same name, in 1982 he participated in the typewritten almanac "List of Actors" .

He is the author of five books of poetry (the first one was published in 1990 in Munich ), has also been published in the magazines New World , Friendship of Peoples , New Literary Review , circus Olympus contemporary art journal, and others.

Developing the tradition of minimalism and concreteness, which comes from the “Lianozovo school” in modern Russian poetry , Akhmetiev in his miniatures carefully fixes the smallest speech details, highlighting the presence of a native poetic principle in the fragments of ordinary speech.

He acts as the publisher of unofficial poetry and prose of the Soviet era ( Eugene Kropyvnytsky , Georgy Obolduev , Ivan Pulkin , Yan Satunovsky , Pavel Ulitin , etc.); co-editor of the poetry section of the anthology “ Samizdat Century ” ( 1997 ), curator of the Internet project “ Unofficial Poetry ” created on its basis. The compiler, editor and co-editor of a number of other anthologies and copyright collections.

Laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize in 2013 in the nomination “For Merits to the Literature” ( “for many years of work in preparing the publications of classics of Russian uncensored literature of the 20th century, participation in the compilation of anthologies“ Poetry of the Second Half of the 20th Century ”,“ Russian Poems 1950-2000 ” ) .

Laureate of the 2019 Joseph Brodsky Foundation Scholarship Award. ^{[1] [2]}

• Thumbnails. - Munich, 1990.
• Poems and only poems. - M.: Publ. Andrei Belashkin’s apartment, 1993.
• Nine years. - M., OGI, 2001.
• Amores: Poems 1966-2002. - M.: LIA R. Elinina, 2002.
• nothing will cost. - M.: Scooter, 2011.

• Ivan Akhmetyev on the site " A new map of Russian literature "
• Ivan Akhmetiev on the site "Unofficial Poetry"
• Ivan Akhmetiev’s page on the Babylon website
• Images of Ivan Akhmetiev on the website “Persons of Russian Literature”
• The page of Ivan Akhmetiev on the site of Alexander Levin "Friends and Acquaintances of the Rabbit"
• I. Akhmetiev on the website of the Andrei Bely Prize
• (English) Poems in the English translation from the anthology of Crossing Centuries (inaccessible link)
• (English) Poems in the English translation