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Book cover for your beloved dogs and other animals by Bohdana Matiash.
“your beloved dogs and other animals gathers fifty poems by Bohdana Matiyash, one of Ukraine’s most distinctive contemporary lyric voices. Written with deliberate simplicity and quiet intensity, these poems move through love, loss, companionship, faith, memory, and the human bond with the natural world.
Animals appear throughout the collection not as decorative figures but as intimate presences—dogs, lions, lambs, and other creatures who open a path toward tenderness, grief, wonder, and emotional truth. Matiyash’s poems dwell in the ordinary: a moment of light, a gesture of care, the nearness of another living being. Yet the ordinary is never merely ordinary. In her work, the everyday and the mystical meet in language that is lucid, restrained, and deeply resonant.”
Forthcoming from Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 2026.