Still City: A Diary of an Invasion by Oksana Maksymchuk Hafez After For Work/For TV –

After For Work/For TV – her extraordinary debut collection and dazzling love letter to the kings and queens of factory canteens

Her first book-length collection

All her work has her hallmark originality

Still there are the ordinary and abundant pleasures of day-to-day living

Still City: A Diary of an Invasion by Oksana Maksymchuk Hafez After For Work/For TV –The poems in this debut English language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems have been composed in the months preceding the full scale invasion of the poet's homeland, others have emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality with urgency and