Ukrainian poet and professor Rostyslav Melnykiv performs 'Distant Bird V Formations' from the collection Writing Under Fire: Poetry and Prose from Ukraine and the Black Country, edited by Sebastian Groes, Carmel Doohan, Sofiya Filonenko and Kerry Hadley-Pryce. In this unique collection, Ukrainian writers reflect on Russia’s war against their country to understand the impact of the terror and trauma that is being inflicted. They receive responses from Black Country colleagues. All proceeds with go to writers and reader in Ukraine. The book, an initiative by Humanities scholars at the University of Wolverhampton, can be bought here: [ Ссылка ].
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