Honey and smoke

"Honey and Smoke" is poetry that can not only be read but also felt.

"Honey and Smoke" is a cantata-like book where words have taste, color, and smell. It is river-like poetry, carrying the bones of tradition and memory, which descend into the earth and resurrect on it as nuts, corn, chicory, and lilacs. It is a collection-mirror from which the person of myth looks into the reader's eyes." (Hanna Shakel)

"Maria Badzei's poems seem to have grown from our land, filled with the voices of its trees, the smells and colors of the seasons of the year. They draw you deep, like water, but in this water—not only our 'here', but also reflections of the universe. These poems are honey for the ear and smoke for the heart." (Volha Hronskaya)