Introducing Iya Kiva

Iya Kiva is a contemporary Ukraine writer. How do you deal with the horrors of your situation? One way for Iya Kiva is sardonic humour. For more details, see https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-30516_Kiva Here is a taster, an excerpt from IS THERE HOT WAR IN THE TAP is there hot war in the tapis there cold war in the taphow is it that there’s absolutely no warit was promised for after lunchwe saw the announcement with our own eyes“war will arrive at fourteen hundred hours” and it’s already three hours without warsix hours without warwhat if there’s no war by the time night fallswe can’t do laundry without warcan’t make dinnercan’t drink tea plain without war …………………………………………………………………………….. The use of domestic imagery, language, response brings home the ‘lived-with’ horror of people’s lives.And yes, for the Ukraine, the tensions and imposition of autocratic demands has being the eceryday experience for a loooong time.