This is her fifth collection, her first to be translated into English, and it is extraordinary to read partly because, even though these poems were written before the war (touching on the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea), they offer insight into what it is to be Ukrainian at this catastrophic moment in her country's history.
Sometimes fairytale comes to her rescue and sees off nightmare. Sometimes a prayer turns into a blessing...she considers the dirty work of euphemism, arguing that the politest words to describe war are the most frightening and ends in outrage at the enemy, euphemism pushed aside: how dare they be so human and inhumane, all at once...how dare they be like us how dare they
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