Contemporary Ukrainian Prose and Poetry

Contemporary Ukrainian Prose and Poetry is the latest addition to the collector’s editions published by Vogue Ukraine. The works were specially commissioned for Vogue Ukraine Edition. The collection brings together under its cover the voices of contemporary Ukrainian poets and writers: Serhiy Zhadan, Eugenia Kuznetsova, Maryana Savka, Iryna Tsilyk, Oksana Zabuzhko, Tetiana Malyarchuk, Olia Rusina, Iryna Slavinska, Tetyana Vlasova, Liudmyla Horova, Kateryna Kalytko, Oleksandr Mykhed, Myroslav Layuk, Haska Shyyan, Miriam Dragina, Irena Karpa, Olha Kupriyan, and Hanna Uliura.

The poems and prose from the Vogue Ukraine Edition book are enchanting happy-ending stories and parables, historical reflections and sketches of the present. It is prose written in peaceful times and poems that were born during the war. And, of course, they are sincere confessions of love and pain because it is as important as ever to talk about your feelings in the midst of violent war.

The idea of this book was born several years ago, but it is symbolic that we publish it now, in the midst of a brutal war unleashed by Russia. Under this cover, we have brought together the voices of Ukrainian writers and poets living in Ukraine and abroad. The texts gathered in this anthology were commissioned by Ukrainian Vogue — most of them were created after the outbreak of full-scale war. They tell of trembling love and bitter pain, of unusual adventures and secret dreams, of Ukrainian archetypes and artifacts, of historical reflections and the challenges of the present. Part of the proceeds from the book’s sale will go to the VETERANKA FOUNDATION, an initiative of the Women’s Veterans Movement, which is responsible for the rehabilitation of women in the military.