Terrible times reveal the true value of poetry. Vera Polozkova's sixth book of poetry contains poems written from 2021 to 2024, during a bitter time of loss: of home, friends, peace, tranquility, and the person closest to her—her mother. But it is also a time of finding new meaning and a new life. Alongside the new poems are texts that became famous in years past, but read completely...

У цій книжці зібрано все найкраще з творчого доробку Миколи Бажана, одного з двох відомих українських номінантів на Нобелівську премію з літератури. І якби її присудили українському поетові, то у формулюванні написали б: за критичний розум, творчу енергію, інтелектуальну глибину, ліричну силу, щирість і людяність. За перо, гостре і точне, як скальпель. За вміння протягнути нитку з минулого в...

A bilingual poetry collection translated from the Ukrainian by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Letters of the Alphabet Go to War is Lesyk Panasiuk’s remarkable account of living in Bucha, Ukraine, during the apex of war and brutality at the hands of the Russian military. The result is a tremendous work that The Guardian describes as embodying ‘the idea of the rupture of language through the...

Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet’s birthplace. As her child expresses a fascination with death and violence, Kolchinsky struggles to process the war unfolding far away, on the same soil where so many of her ancestors perished during the Holocaust.