On foot

As if in a musical theme with variations, motifs, images, sound complexes, even entire statements are repeated and varied in the book. At the same time, each text remains a valuable artistic integrity in itself. Among others, the collection includes poems awarded the "Golden Apostrophe" award as the best poetic publication in the journal "Dzeyaslov" in 2023.

Not figures, not rhymes, not tropes —
only the wind has a secret code,
only pauses after ellipsis,
Only the snowy expanse is silent.

Only there, behind the rhythm and meter,
behind the fence, behind the wall, beyond the border, —
the cipher of the wind, the voice of the conductor...
Impossible… impossible… really…

Ales Dubrovsky-Sarochankau (Alyaksandr Dubrovsky) is a poet, philologist, and theologian. He is the author of the poetry books "Between the Sky and the Marsh" (1997), "The Aesthetics of Silence" (2011), "On a Thin Thread" (2021), "Liturgy of Time" (Skaryna Press, 2023), monographs "The Poetics of Ryhor Baradulin: Rhythmic Organization of the Verse" (2006), collections of theological studies and religious journalism.