Year of the Cheetah

A collection of poems by Yuri Smirnov, one of the few modern poets who has a distinctly recognizable and memorable style, his own poetic language. Yuri Smirnov is a writer, poet, screenwriter, and laureate of the Grigoriev Poetry Prize; he lives in Kropyvnytskyi (Ukraine) and writes poetry in Russian. The first poem of the book "Year of the Cheetah" was written on February 26, 2022, and the last one on June 11, 2023.