What was said in verse

It would seem that there is so much in the creative treasury of writer, journalist, and teacher Anna Sevyarynets that there is no room for poetry. Meanwhile, the reader has the opportunity to join in the artistic expression that has developed precisely in the poetic form. 

The book of poetry turned out to be sincere, so to speak, "undisguised", undisguised in its story about herself and time. That is why it begins with a portrait of the author, made by Pavel Sevyarynets, a famous public figure, Belarusian political prisoner, brother. Calm, wide-open eyes, a gentle smile... They are completely organic to the author's poetic manner - a realistic image, a topas of the Belarusian space, good humor, in which the national literary tradition is felt. 

They are conveyed to the reader not by a woman lamenting the victims of a time marked by the atmosphere of "thirty-seven" and prison walls. All this is in the book, but it does not overshadow anything else - the voice of a woman, intelligent, resilient in life, accustomed to both joy and sorrow, capable of translating them into the register of delight in life in its various manifestations.

Anna Severynets – Belarusian teacher, journalist and writer, literary critic, researcher of Belarusian literature. Born in Minsk in 1975. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology and postgraduate studies at the Belarusian State University. Author of fiction and documentary books “St. Patrick's Day” (2017), “Vladimir Dubovka: Him and About Him” (2017), “Hotel “Belgium” (2019), “Around Pyotr Glebko” (2019), “My School” (2021). Compiler and author of forewords and commentaries to the books: “Ales Dudar. Selected Works” (2017), “Yanka Kupala. Selected Works” (2020), “Three Onegins: Pushkin, Dudar, Kuleshov” (2020), “Kastus Sevyarynets. Selected Works” (2022). Laureate of the Alexander Vlasov Exlibris Awards (2014), Clay Veles (2017), Transparent Eol (2018). "Person of the Year"-2019 - according to the version of the newspaper "Nasha Niva". Shortlisted for the Jerzy Giedroyc Award with the book "Hotel Belgium" (2020), with the book "My School" (2022). Married, three children.