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10,000 poems about the war in Ukraine were written by Ukrainian and foreign poets within the project “Poetry of the Free”

More than 10,000 applications for poems have been written by Ukrainian and foreign poets since the beginning of Russia’s hostilities in Ukraine. This is the number of applications for poems submitted in the first 15 days on the portal “Poetry of the Free”, which was created with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy and the State Agency for Arts and Art Education in early March 2022. .

Creativity is an effective way to understand the tragic events of the war. Through poems, poets try to express their strong feelings and emotions.

All 100% of the poems are about the war. A third of them are poems full of misunderstanding, shock, anger and hatred for the invaders. Another third of the works concerns the inner experiences of the characters, such poems are full of anxiety, fear, uncertainty about the future and their lives. These are poems written by children, soldiers, volunteers in front of the front line, soldiers’ mothers, beloved girls and ordinary civilians whose homes came to war. Most of the poems are about the victory, the strength of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, admiration for their courage and sincere gratitude to all those who are fighting.

More than 80% of the poems are optimistic. This means that poets believe in victory, which very accurately conveys public sentiment. The latest results of opinion polls from the group “Rating” give the same data.

10,000 verses are 7,270,151 characters, or about 1,320,000 words. 27 volunteers, half of whom are professional editors, work daily to moderate, edit and correct this impressive number of works.

“Volunteers from all over the world help us with the translation of the portal’s interface, and we already have a collection of poems in 7 languages, so this project can be called international,” said Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.

The Poetry of the Free portal is replenished with new poems every hour. Recently, there was an opportunity for the authors to indicate the place where the poem was written. So, we have poems from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Mykolayiv, Volnovakha. Written in the basements of Mariupol and during the evacuation of Ukrzaliznytsia from Chernihiv.

“Reading poems, you can follow the chronology of the war – so subtly and sensitively react creative people to the course of events. As for the form of poetic works, it is mostly poetry, prose (white) works are very few. The most popular way of rhyming in the stanzas of Ukrainian poets is cross (abab). The most common type of stanza is a quatrain or quatrain (a stanza of four lines).

About 1 time in 20 poems there is a legendary phrase about the direction of the ship. Thanks to our poets, now this quote is finally immortalized in Ukrainian culture, “said Maryna Yusyn, moderator.

Poems of the highest artistic level are marked “Editor’s Choice”. She currently has 112 poems. It will be recalled that the best poems will form a collection that will be published with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.

For easier navigation among the collection of poems added several filters:

“Random” – displays poems in random order so that regular visitors to the site always see different works;
“Popular” – displays the poems that received the most “hearts”;
“New” – displays the poems in chronological order;
“Editor’s Choice” – displays the favorite poems of the editors, and the authors of works that fall into this category, receive a letter to e-mail.

Poems in Ukrainian, Russian, English, French, Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian have been published. And the interface is translated into English, Estonian, Spanish, Icelandic, Slovak, Danish, German and Greek.

Currently, the portal continues its work and is waiting for new talents. Join: https://warpoetry.mkip.gov.ua

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