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**WINNER OF AN ERIC GREGORY AWARD**

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 FORWARD PRIZE - FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*

This searingly powerful first collection about Ukrainian identity is a howl of anguish and an elegant counter-song against totalitarianism

''A beautiful, necessary book''
ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf Republic

''Every poem is a masterpiece''
OLIA HERCULES, author of Mamushka

With this searingly powerful first collection, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight gives the current war in Ukraine some much-needed human focus, while examining its brutal aggression within a wider and more accurate historical context.

Central to this book is a timeline of hunger', a lyric sequence which examines the legacy of the Holodomor (death by hunger' in Ukrainian) Stalin's man-made famine of the 1930s. This long poem opens in Kyiv in 2021 brief visitations / of appetite / I devour / beetroot / its juices / runnin

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 2/22/2024
      ISBN13: 9781787334892, 978-1787334892
      ISBN10: 1787334899
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      **WINNER OF AN ERIC GREGORY AWARD**

      *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 FORWARD PRIZE - FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*

      This searingly powerful first collection about Ukrainian identity is a howl of anguish and an elegant counter-song against totalitarianism

      ''A beautiful, necessary book''
      ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf Republic

      ''Every poem is a masterpiece''
      OLIA HERCULES, author of Mamushka

      With this searingly powerful first collection, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight gives the current war in Ukraine some much-needed human focus, while examining its brutal aggression within a wider and more accurate historical context.

      Central to this book is a timeline of hunger', a lyric sequence which examines the legacy of the Holodomor (death by hunger' in Ukrainian) Stalin's man-made famine of the 1930s. This long poem opens in Kyiv in 2021 brief visitations / of appetite / I devour / beetroot / its juices / runnin

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