I speak to you from Leningrad… Blockade poetry

This collection includes poems by both recognized Soviet poets, whose voices were heard on Leningrad radio during the blockade and whose works were marked by state awards, as well as poets unknown to a wide readership, whose poems, written in the terrible days of the blockade without intent for publication, have become a revelation of our time. Therefore, under one cover are authors of such different fates and gifts: Anna Akhmatova and Olga Berggolts, Natalia Krandieva-Tolstaya and Tatyana Gnedich, Gennady Gor and Pavel Zaltsman, Vadim Shefner and Vera Inber, Zinaida Shishova and Varvara Voltman-Spasskaya, Sergey Rudakov and Daniil Andreyev... These poems are not only a fact of literature but also a mirror of the era and the human soul, capturing one of the most tragic pages of the Great Patriotic War.