We invite you to the presentation of the debut poetry collection by the poet and screenwriter Maryna Ponomarenko "The Book of Love and Rage" in Uzhhorod. The meeting with the author will take place on Tuesday, 5 March, at 18:00 in the "Ye" Bookstore (40 Svobody Avenue).
The conversation will be moderated by journalist and media manager Iryna Soviak.
Entrance is free.
"The Book of Love and Rage: https://starylev.com.ua/knyga-knyzka-lyubovi-i-lyuti
The poems included in The Book of Love and Rage were written in 2019-2022, during the COVID-19 epidemic and then the full-scale invasion. These are poems about what keeps us on the surface when, according to all the laws of physics and physiology, we should have already drowned. It's about the ability to swim when the current is pulling you into the open sea, hostile and full of predators. It's about the ability to hold your breath when you're hit by a high wave. It's about the strength that allows you to see a lighthouse on the horizon and head for the shore. It's about the courage to dive deep and find a shell at the bottom as a souvenir of this journey, no matter how scary and gloomy it was. And this book is also about the art of singing and laughing - even in the dark icy water.
In the design of the book, the artist Ksenia Zabrodska made an unexpected experiment. The illustrations were created with the help of Midjourney artificial intelligence, because the depth and multilevel nature of Marina Ponomarenko's works can touch not only living hearts but also artificial intelligence.
Maryna Ponomarenko is a poet and screenwriter. She was born in 1984 in the village of Hryhorivka, Kyiv region. She lives in Kyiv. She graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Film and Television University with a degree in film and television drama (Bohdan Zholdak's workshop). Works in the field of communications. Her poems have been awarded at several literary competitions - Crimean Figs, Pro100fest and others. Maryna Ponomarenko's works were included in the anthologies Between the Sirens (2023), YBN BLD RSN (2023), Atmintis Ugnis Deguonis. Iš mūsų laiko Ukrainos poezijos" (Lithuania, 2022), "Crimean Figs" (2021), "Anthology of Kyiv Region Writers" (2021), and others. She has been published in the Kyiv magazine, the Ukrainian Literary Newspaper, the LitCentre online portal, and other periodicals.