Veronika Dolina welcomes the new year 2026 with a book of fresh poems.

These are chronicles of the two or three years she's just lived through, as stark as black-and-white photographs.

But, as we know, poet and musician Dolina also sets secret mechanisms in motion: poems rush to be realized, events rush to take place.

Poetry and music combined are already powerful.

What has been written is practically impossible to correct.

What has been experienced can be reshaped.

Although every poet insists on the opposite—words are flexible, every step leads to sorrow or joy.

True, words have a way of gathering themselves in a special order... As if they were in the hands of someone other than the poet.

Take a look at Veronika Dolina's book of new poems.

Is everything really irreparable?

Or is it?