Make-Up Tips for the Sick

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae'r bardd Tsiec-Wcrainaidd Iryna Zahladko yn cofnodi ei phrofiad a newidiodd ei bywyd mewn iaith farddonol sy'n amrywio rhwng cofnod dyddiadur brys a chyfrif steiledig o ddadfeiliad a thrais.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The Czech-Ukrainian poet Iryna Zahladko records her life-changing experience in a poetic language which alternates between an urgent diary record and a stylised account of disintegration and violence.

Archebu o flaen llaw

Os nad yw’r teitl hwn wedi’i gyhoeddi eto, gallwch ei archebu o flaen llaw. Byddwn yn dosbarthu eich eitem cyn gynted ag y bydd ar gael gan y cyflenwr ac wedi cyrraedd atom. Gall dyddiadau cyhoeddi newid.

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Dosbarthu

Byddwn yn dosbarthu eitemau sydd mewn stoc o fewn 3 diwrnod gwaith, fel arfer drwy Royal Mail Tracked 48. Ar gyfer archebion o flaen llaw, byddwn yn dosbarthu’r eitem o fewn 3 diwrnod gwaith ar ôl ei derbyn gan ein cyflenwr.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Iryna Zahladko is a Czech-Ukrainian poet, translator, and a graduate in theoretical physics. She has been living in Prague since 2019 and has published two books in Ukrainian, a collection of poems in Polish, and the poetry collection Tváření (Shaping, 2023) in Czech. She has edited zines, organised festivals, curated exhibitions, slams and performances, and collaborated with various writers across the Czech and Ukrainian art scene.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Translated with an introduction by Alexandra Büchler. Won the 2025 Literary Critics’ Award for Poetry in Czechia. ‘One of 2024’s most outstanding achievements in Czech poetry.’ – Tvar In Make-Up Tips for the Sick , Zahladko engages in the most intimate record of the body’s processes while undergoing treatment for cancer, tirelessly observing the experience of internal exile in a world where supposedly ‘nothing is happening’. While her poetry demands that these harsh realities be addressed, it also acknowledges that even here simple human desires exist, even here the taste of good food is important. Life goes on, even though time does not flow in war or illness, as the poet relates with a repeated, urgent refrain.