Skin of Nocturnal Apple by Misha Honcharenko book prize Chernobyl has become lodged in

Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning

from Sufi shaykhs in Dagestan

Pushkin’s shorter forays into verse drama include The Water Nymph

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The characters are delightful and you can imagine them in a Woody Allen version of an Agatha Christie novel

Skin of Nocturnal Apple by Misha Honcharenko book prize Chernobyl has become lodged inSkin of Nocturnal Apple is the debut collection of Ukrainian artist and poet Misha Honcharenko. Written in the years prior to Russia's invasion in 2022, Skin of Nocturnal Apple offers a window into the life of a young queer man living and working in the future war ravaged country. The collection is accompanied with an afterword by psychoanalyst and writer Nick Blackburn (The Reactor, Faber 2022). Paperback