About the book: 2012 / Igor Shklyarevsky's poem "Memory of Slavgorod dust", which opens the February issue of "Znamya" ", - a scene from provincial life, snatched by the keen eye of the poet. A selection of poems by a native of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Gandelsman, begins with the “Siege Ballad.” The poet Oleg Dozmorov, who now lives in London, in a foreign-language environment, apparently, it was not by chance that he gave the poems a telling title: “The Execution of a Sound Lover ". Nikolai Baytov, a poet and prose writer, winner of the Joseph Brodsky scholarship, speaks with a selection of poems “The Rustle of Sparks.” Dmitry Vedenyapin’s poems “Stravinsky Hall” are full of music and the fullness of life