The band Dead Rooster released a rock suite with a poem by Maryna Ponomarenko

The band Dead Rooster presented a studio recording of the rock suite Urvyshche (Photo: instagram.com/mertvyipiven).

The townspeople do not know what to do with the cliff, which is constantly growing and absorbing everything around, so they are looking for someone to settle next to him in order to stop his appetites. The allegorical and very cinematic text reveals new images every time, and as if it looks inside each listener.

“There is no rational reason to spend so much time and effort writing a poem or song. But there are a bunch of irrational ones, my favorite of them: because we can just do it, and we can do it as best we can. If someone asked my advice on how to live this life, I would turn this reason into advice: do what you can and do it as best you can.

Urvyshche's poem is published in her book Guide to the Cliff and Environs, which was included in the list of the best Ukrainian publications in 2025 according to the Ukrainian PEN.