Literature & Literary Studies

2014

Alarms

by Kostiantyn Moskalets

The basis of Kostyantyn Moskalets's writing is a fine aesthetic taste, a good familiarity with works on philosophy, aesthetics, cultural studies, the ability to catch the trends of certain literary phenomena, and analytical thinking. Moskalets reveals a high culture of reception, the culture that was practiced in the Ukrainian literature by his favorite poets and critics Mykola Zerov and Vasyl Stus. The importance of this essay writing and literary criticism lies in direct, immediate vision, which respects the originality, individuality of all things and encourages reflection on the universal laws of the universe, leading to the appreciation of every moment of existence.

Literature & Literary Studies

2019

An Apple of Good Hopes

by Holoborodko Vasyl

Selected poems from almost all of his poetry collections are included in the book by Vasyl‘ Holoborod‘ko (born in 1945), a prominent representative of the Kyiv School of Poets, one of the most famous Ukrainian poets in the world literary context of the 20th Century. Despite Soviet censorship and persecutions, the poet managed to remain a nonconformist, making a significant contribution to the literary process. At one time, the anthology of the world poetry of the 20th century was published in Belgrade, with a telling title From the Bengalee Rabindranath Tagore to the Ukrainian Vasyl‘ Holoborod‘ko. In 1966, Holoborodko wrote a prophetic poem that began as follows, "They stole my name..." And in 2016, his name was stolen from him when his name was given to the main character of the entertainment TV show Servant of the People... Nevertheless, as history proves, the Poet also has a chance to win. But, perhaps, only after earthly life...

Literature & Literary Studies

October 2018

Antenna

by Serhiy Zhadan

"Antenna" is a collection of 80 new poems written by the author over the past two years. They represent 80 attempts to catch air vibrations, to catch the flow of invisible radio waves in space, to feel to the touch of the time in which we live, breathe, and speak. Time, every trace of which leaves a burn—a time when private diary entries could be war chronicles and Bible stories or the morning news. Sensual and deep.

Anthology of Ukrainian Poetry of the Twentieth Century. From Tychyna to Zhadan

Literature & Literary Studies

2017

Anthology of Ukrainian Poetry of the Twentieth Century. From Tychyna to Zhadan

by Anthology

The twentieth century was a time for the brightest and daring ways of expressing themselves in creativity. It was a time to experiment with form and content, and the historical revolution was reflected in the texts of writers and poets. How Ukrainian poets saw this time and how they felt will be clearly shown by the Anthology of Ukrainian Poetry of the Twentieth Century. From Tychyna to Zhadan. Thanks to this book, the reader will find the already known works by Dmytro Pavlychko, Vasyl‘ Stus, Lina Kostenko, and get acquainted with the work of those who became famous at the end of the century — Yuriy Izdryk, Oleksiy Zhupanskiy, Serhiy Zhadan, Galyna Kruk. You may also meet and come to love other talented names. Ivan Malkovych gathered everyone under one cover and became the compiler of this collection himself, a poet, publisher and owner of the publishing house "A-ba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha".

Literature & Literary Studies

2019

Bow to the tree

by Borys Khersonsky

Borys Khersonskyi is a famous poet, essayist, and translator, laureate of many international awards. Bow to a Tree is a collection of the author’s poems in Ukrainian, his auto-translations, and verses translated by Serhiy Zhadan, Volodymyr Tymchuk, and Oleh Honcharenko. The author travels through his poems from the most ancient times to the birth of Christ, the starting point of the hope revival through redemption. From the Soviet regime, he lived under to the present - a time full of pain, loss, war, and all the same faith and hope.

Poetry

2020

Dynamo Kharkiv

by Zhadan Serhiy

The book of the selected works by Serhiy Zhadan (23.08.1974), the most popular and beloved Ukrainian poet of the new wave, includes the most famous poems from all the previous collections, as well as new, not yet published poetry. This is the most complete selection by the poet to date.

Poetry

2016

Mountain and Flower. Selected Poems

by Vorobiov Mykola

Mykola Vorobiov (1941), poet and painter of "Ukrainian Zen", is one of the leaders of the underground of the 1970s, representative of the so-called ousted generation, founder of the literary group "The Kyiv School of Poetry". Adherent of Naturphilosophie, about whom V. Morenz said, "possesses the light and flair of things, inaccessible to the preoccupied majority."

Nobody knows us here, and we know nobody

Literature & Literary Studies

October 2019

Nobody knows us here, and we know nobody

by Kateryna Kalytko

Kateryna Kalytko's new book is a long story written in one breath. It is a book about personal boundaries that one will recognize and defend as well as the boundaries will always protect him. This story is about the ability to live with one's scars, being an orphan, remembering the metallic smell of weapons at night, and the air in which time is dissolved. This is the story about the taste of your own words that burn your mouth when you taste their true meaning.

Literature & Literary Studies

2021

Order of the Silent Women

by Kateryna Kalytko

A portrait of a Ukrainian woman more often shows her being silent than speaking. However, without this silence there would be no voice that sounds in this collection. The voice that defends the right to speak sincerely about acute grief, generational traumas, the courage of love, and disappointment with emptiness behind masks. Since speaking out is the only way to remain oneself and to be the voice of hundreds speechless sisters.

Literature & Literary Studies

2021

Other things

by Yurko Izdryk

Yurko Izdryk’s poetry has an extraordinary optical effect as if he talks to you eye to eye reaching deep into your soul. The poems touch on such a level that you can find yourself inside them, and after all, inside the poet’s or lyrical hero’s life, living it as your own because it is so real. This personal touch is known in Ukraine as the phenomenon of Izdryk. Regardless of the phenomenon’s variating tonality – sometimes softly lyrical or harshly ironic, it remains native, yours, reflected by you. In addition to poems, there are also poet’s collages, “other things” that appear in words and pictures, thereby creating the body of one single object - the book as an artifact of life.

Literature & Literary Studies

2015

Pentateuch

by Hrytsko Chubai

This book presents one of the most mysterious Ukrainian poets whose star shone brightly in 1970s, the dark times for Ukrainian culture. Through his poetry Hrytsko Chubai talks to his contemporaries and dear friends. Both his poems and friends outlived the poet by many years, which makes this book is like a letter in a bottle bearing an extremely important message from the past for those who can interpret it and grow living words in their hearts.

The Arts

2020

Permanent Residency

by Serhiy Zhadan, Pavlo Makov

Permanent Residency is an art book by two Kharkiv authors, poet Serhiy Zhadan and artist Pavlo Makov. It is an attempt to review the last 27 years of their presence in Kharkiv through the optics of their works. The book combines two views, two generations, and two different artistic languages . The publication contains graphic works and poems selected by Pavlo Makov and Serhiy Zhadan independently during the creation of the artbook. The works are organized in a reversed order. They do not comment on each other; poems do not describe graphic works, and graphic works do not illustrate poems. This allows a reader/viewer to become a third participant in the process of discovering common meanings.

Literature & Literary Studies

2013

Plantain

by Malkovych Ivan

The book of the selected works by Ivan Malkovych (1961) includes poems from the collections The White Stone (1984), The Key (1988), Poems (1992), With an Angel on the Shoulder (1997), Poems for Winter (2006), Everything Is Nearby (2010), Plantain (2013, first edition), Banks of Yaksuna (2020).

Literature & Literary Studies

2013

Poetry: 1980-2013

by Oksana Zabuzhko

This volume of selected poems of the famous Ukrainian poetess is a collection of her best works composed between 1980 and 2013. In addition to the poems earlier published in the compilations named “May Hoarfrost” (1985), “The Conductor of the Last Candle” (1990), “Hitchhiking” (1994), “The New Law of Archimedes” (2000) and “Second Attempt”(2009), the present edition includes selected poetic translations of different years (with R.-M. Rilke, Sylvia Platt, C. Milosz, J. Brodsky, and other).

Literature & Literary Studies

October 2018

Selected Poetry

by Vasyl Stus

Vasyl Stus was not only a poet of rare talent, publicist, translator and literary critic, but he is also a personification of "the voice of conscience in the world of shaky and blurred concepts of honour, truth, decency." He spent nearly half of his life in Soviet detention centres, solitary confinement cells, Mordovian and Kolyma camps and toiling at mines. The Soviet penal system deprived him of family visits, seized his poems, letters and manuscripts, physically abused him and tried to destroy him morally but it never managed to break his spirit.The poems in this collection are the best examples of Vasyl Stus's lyrics. In these lines, civic motives and the artist's pain for the fate of Ukraine are intertwined with a delicate lace of love lyrics and philosophical reflections on life and the purpose of man. Poems are full of hope and unyielding resolve.

Poetry

2013

Selected for 33 years

by Oleksandr Irvanets

This book is part of the poetry series "Numbers", which includes collections of Ukrainian and foreign poets. The oldest works of Oleksandr Irvanets in this collection date back to the 1980s. While immersing into the book, you will discover how the poet's life and work, thoughts and beliefs have changed over many years. "Selected for 33 years" is the twenty-fifth published book of Oleksandr Irvants, a true classic of the Ukrainian literature.

Poetry

2020

Stonegardenwoods

by Iryna Shuvalova

The title Iryna Shuvalova’s book Stonegardenwoods brings to mind the magic happening in an alchemist's retort. Likewise, in her poems, people break down into elements, and the world of things suddenly echoes with human voices. Eliminating the gaps not only between words but also between things, the author explores the phenomenon of memory at its deepest, most organic levels, where relatives and strangers interlace by circulatory systems, like trees with roots. This book is about belonging to time, place, and people and the inability to relate to any one of them.

Literature & Literary Studies

October 2016

Templars

by Serhiy Zhadan

And so they return from the war and notice that the war exists only in their reality. And that now they will have to bear responcibility for that war. The space between their responsibility and their war is filled with fierceness and anger, but also faith and perseverance. And only the one who remembers where it all started can overcome this chasm. And most importantly, he knows how everything should end."The Templars" is a collection of 39 poems about the war that no one declared, about the pain that no one can cope with, about the love that no one can refuse, and the hope on which everything rests.Serhiy ZhadanI was honored to illustrate Serhiy Zhadan's new book. In a sense, we all live in the Age of Desire. Serhiy today is perhaps the most important figure of the new Ukrainian literature. I also perceive him as a voice of reason and a role model of the honest position of a writer in our tattered time in our already self-reborn country. I decided not to literally illustrate specific texts, but to create a kind of suite based on my own works from different years, that resonate with Serhiy's poetry. Alexander Roitburd

Literature & Literary Studies

2019

The First Page of Winter

by Iia Kiva

"The First Page of Winter" is a collection of poetry by Iia Kiva, which includes poems composed from 2015 till 2019. The main theme is language and the inability to speak, the search for identity and historical memory, the understanding of great history and private stories inscribed in it, the war and traumatic experiences, about rooting and mapping. And in general - about a person in turbulent times and the search for words to understand what is happening, has happened and will happen. The poetry collection "The First Page of Winter", received a special award from the jury of the "ЛітАкцент-2019" (LitAccent-2019) literary award, and was included in the list of the best books of 2019 according to PEN Ukraine.

Literature & Literary Studies

2020

The List of Ships

by Serhiy Zhadan

Sixty poems about memory born of love, and about fire that leaves tenderness in its wake. Sixty attempts to outline light and to tell of the air above the city. Sixty excerpts of other people’s conversations, sixty voices that fill the twilight in spring. “The List of Ships” is a list of those who had left, but whom we cannot forget. A list of names that accompany you throughout all your life. A list of cities where you are always expected and welcomed. Perhaps, the most intimate book of the author.

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