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Speaking to the Leningrad-born poet at his home in Berlin, Eve Richens asks Eugene Ostashevsky about his current project - The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi - his vast array of influences, from Shakespeare to Soviet linguistic propaganda, and the communicative abilities of animals