February 28 in Vitebsk art space Vitebsk4Me presentation of the book of poems Ales Plotka "Baisan". Active participation in the meeting and took the poet Olga Tchaikovsky, whose first collection "Magnifiers" was released in 2007.
Poetic performance was relaxed and organic: the impression that this is not their first joint appearance, when in fact it was not so. Echoed not only images and themes. It seemed as if we face yin and yang of modern Belarusian poetry. Humanly pleasant representatives of modern poetic generation in a pleasant informal atmosphere of the gathering lifted the veil of his poetic world and tried to push apart the sleepy kingdom everyday uniform, made a different look on the Belarusian versification. Everything else depended on everyone who heard their message.
Ales Plotka, originally from Gomel, is known not only as a poet but also as a showman, presenter, PR manager of cultural projects organized by the company, "We Belarusians"! He is winner of the magazine " Dziejasłoŭ" "Golden apostrophe", the student of the Belarusian PEN Center actively printed in periodicals.
Book of poems "Baisan" was published by "Knihazbor" edited by Natalia Kuchmel. Vieršnica artistic expression by the present author has fulfilled artist Julia Golovina. As explained Ales, the word "Baisan" slang marine ships that travel through the Atlantic Ocean, means "land". Rider is on the cover - and it is a lovely woman, and muse that inspires, as well as connection to the name, as "earth" is the embodiment of the feminine.
As we already know from the press, such arbitrary treatment of national symbols "Abduction" has caused a mixed assessment among the local Orthodox, and that in turn has pushed Ales Plotku speak in favor of Nasta Shpakovskaya that got even worse off: almost a year she is suing the composer Oleg Silence. He said that the group "Naka" and Nasta violated his musical version of the proposed project Re:Pesnyary. On this occasion Shpakovskaya and Baisan staged nude-photo shoot for the freedom of creative expression. Thought that the authors wanted to convey, is simple: "with the creator is nothing to take but a creative product."
Vitebsk audience graciously met voiced poet poetry. Most of applause went to "10 rules of hipster" and "Rosa Luxemburg", which ends rather philosophically generalized line: "U pryncypie, uvieś śviet — adna vialikaja vulica Rozy Luksemburg".
Interesting in terms of composition and artistic means used is the poem "Šlu paštoŭku aryštantu":
šlu paštoŭku aryštantu
pišu šeptam i z pašanaj
štandar šery nad klaštaram
šlu paštoŭku aryštantu
šlu paštoŭku aryštantu
na paštamcie šalaścieńnie
arkušoŭ i šapacieńnie
šlu paštoŭku aryštantu
šlu paštoŭku aryštantu
šelmy šelmaŭ škvarkaj łaščać
štolni dušaŭ niby paščy
šlu paštoŭku aryštantu
šlu paštoŭku aryštantu
płoščy našy niby proščy
ščoki nam na ščaście chvoščuć
šlu paštoŭku aryštantu
Listen to new poetry Olga was interesting not only to those who knew her since the first collection. Over the eight years of her poetry has acquired new features become freer, less dependent on classic stereotypes and simply creator became an adult, and it's time to get rid of illusions that bloomed early spring. Therefore, it is often heard the desire to bid farewell to childhood: "The last ten years I want to believe that childhood is over," "everything is possible - gallop."
But not so simple in this world: "And so you realize that you reach never, never come, and you will live forever in the maze of false signs." The same deep thoughts heard in many of its verses: "Nichto nie syšoŭ – usie zastalisia, u paščy epochi zachraśli usie", or "ciapier chałodny duš – maja mara".
Occupies a special place in her work Vitebsk, but its role is gradually reduced. And the more the world opens in front of the poet and the more its light touches piercing strings of the soul, the less the effect of a small country and it becomes all the more paradoxical imagery and philosophical rethinking the city of her childhood:
"A city that can not be forgotten. The city from which you can not get rid of," "I do not need anyone in this lonely town."
Once her friend said something that something changed attitude toward poetic creativity: "Write a poem about it." In the words of the poet, every time you get into any difficult or tragic circumstances, such emotional and poetic self-therapy helps to get rid of the emotional and psychological tensions - and releases.
But despite the diversity of its modern style and poetry, figurative composition and its diversity is what remains unchanged. This is her creativity and civic principles that are the foundation of her poetry: "His sky carrying a – I'm old-fashioned".
Perhaps the most important discovery - I think not only for me - was the fact that modern poetry in Belarusian figures Plotki and Tchaikovsky gone far beyond the well-known school with Belarusian classical poetry. So feel free and fruitfully learn genres, themes and images that connect their work with European and world poetry. Travel around the world, dating from the world of literary, musical and artistic classic push the boundaries of their creativity, and their works in translation will be clear to every inhabitant of the planet, though a little versed in poetry.
These verses do not obsessive moaning older predecessors in the language, which permanently dies, there some inexhaustible, incurable melancholy. But there is a prospect, there is a new, personal reinterpretation of classic images and themes, there is a correspondence with reality philosophicality, which is under a peculiar relationship of all European culture universal value system.
Although, as expressed in one of his poems Ales Plotka "Truny majoj apošni ćvik zabje apošni balšavik". Soviet past will not let go, but it goes past and inevitably, eventually go away.
S. Horki
