With Ripe Cherries (hardcover)

"With Ripe Cherries" is a poetry collection that didn't come together in a single moment. Viktoriia Koval gathered these poems slowly, the way you pick cherries in July — carefully, with a slight bitterness, telling the ripe fruit from the green.

The book holds intimate, philosophical, and civic lyric poetry. It's a collection about maturity, about a path of individuation that collapses and starts over again, about the sheer number of feelings that get to speak here at full volume.

There's vulnerability without performance, anger without apology, tenderness without decoration. The author isn't afraid to call things by their names — which is exactly why these poems tend to stay with you longer than expected.

Illustrations and cover design by Kateryna Yakovlieva.