Year: 2023

POETS HOLDING A FORTRESS OF MORALE

Update Date：10/06/2023
Post Date：06/06/2023

AS A POET

In a bunker just outside. The city limits of Bakhmut. Ukraine’s 77th Brigade direct artillery. Fire to support their infantry. Their last line of defence. On the western edge of the city. Ukraine is still clinging. To the last few streets here. The artillery gunners watch intently. From a drone flying above […]

A POET IN BELGOROD

Update Date：07/06/2023
Post Date：03/06/2023

AS A POET

Now can I talk about where I come from? Now can I talk about where I come to? Now can I talk about my homeland? No, no, not yet, but I show you. Now can I talk about my history? No, no, not yet, but I show you. Now can […]

POETS MANOEUVRING

Update Date：07/06/2023
Post Date：31/05/2023

AS A POET

“A launch has been detected. Manoeuvre!” The order of the ‘elves’ ground team. Is clear. An ‘orcs’ Su-35 fighter jet has fired. A missile at his aircraft. He knows he has to abort. The mission in order to survive. He quickly dives his MiG-29. So low that he can see the treetops. The […]

POETS INSEPARABLE

Update Date：30/05/2023
Post Date：28/05/2023

AS A POET

He had been fighting. For 200 hours without a break. When he was killed by an ‘orc’ sniper. In the city of Bakhmut. “For eight days. He did not eat, or sleep. He couldn’t even close his eyes for five minutes. Because the sniper could shoot.” There’s a reason why. She now calls […]

A POET IN 8 SECONDS

Update Date：30/04/2023
Post Date：23/04/2023

AS A POET

What is alive in the sky? What is dead in the air? You are keeping your eyes on Bakhmut. You need 8 seconds to see Bakhmut. What is sound in the earth? What is silent in the mud? You are keeping your eyes on Bakhmut. You need 8 seconds to see Bakhmut. What […]

A POET ENSURING

Update Date：23/04/2023
Post Date：22/04/2023

AS A POET

Suffering from shell-shock. And with one arm bandaged. He was the only soldier. Still able to fight. The 37-year-old fired. At the waves of ‘orcs’ soldiers. He was the only soldier. Still able to fight. ‘Orcs’ tried to storm his position. They didn’t even try to take cover. But simply walked towards him. […]

POETS JOKING TOGETHER

Update Date：04/04/2023
Post Date：31/03/2023

AS A POET

“We have a joke,” he said. “‘The One’ will be made. A hero of Ukraine. For the job he’s done.” “To unite Ukraine. To build our economy. To build our army. And to make the ‘elves’ nation great.” Another laughed, “But yeah. The war is horrible. But it’s like the price. For our […]

POETS IN VELYKA NOVOSILKA

Update Date：04/04/2023
Post Date：31/03/2023

AS A POET

The line of trees appears to fragment. And disappear as it winds its way towards. The ‘orcs’ positions on the outskirts of. The small town of Velyka Novosilka. On this front line. ‘Orcs’ eyes are always watching. Waiting for. An opportunity to attack. An ‘elf’ army infantryman. With the 1st Separate Tank […]

POETS ORDERED TO LEAVE

Update Date：01/04/2023
Post Date：25/03/2023

AS A POET

Ukraine has ordered. Some residents to leave Kupiansk. As ‘Mordor’ seeks to re-take the city. It left last year. Kharkiv’s regional authorities said. Families with children and people. “With limited mobility” must leave due to. “Constant” shelling by ‘orcs’ forces. ‘Mordor’ seized the north-eastern city. Early in the full-scale invasion. With Ukraine recapturing […]

A POET RETURNING

Update Date：29/03/2023
Post Date：21/03/2023

AS A POET

On a bitterly cold Kyiv morning. The sight of him jogging with his friends. Is a moving one of. A return to a fuller life. In May last year. He was lying. In a hospital bed. With a broken pelvis and jaw. He was injured. While defending. The south-eastern city of Mariupol. Early […]