This project exposes human arrogance and its consequences. From environmental destruction to enforced conformity, it reveals our troubled relationship with nature and freedom. The narrative arc moves from aggressive intrusion to isolation, ending with society's systematic clipping of individual wings. It is questioning our collective choices and their impact.
The project is part of the subthemes The Ecology of Language - Poetry and Environmental Action, Healing Narratives - Poetry, Mental Health and Collective Trauma, Cultural Resilience - Literature as a force for social justice.
Author
Desislava Golicheva
Desislava Golicheva was born on September 8, 1985 in Sliven. She has been writing poems and singing in folk choirs since childhood. Her many interests and talents led her to Sofia University and Plovdiv University, where she studied Speech Therapy, Music Pedagogy and Interior Design.
She has been awarded by numerous creative writing competitions. Some of them are: Petia Dubarova National Literary Competition (2000), Bulgarian National Radio Children Literary Competition (2001), Future for Bulgaria Foundation National Poetry Competition(2002), Veselin Hanchev National Poetry Competition (2004 and 2009), Hermes National Literary Competition for First Book (2010 - nomination in poetry category), National Haiku Competition (2010), The Good Inside Us Literary Competition (2010), Prolet Moia National Poetry Competition (2009, 2010 and 2011), V Polite na Vitosha National Competition, Anual Poetry Competition by Plovdiv University (2022). Desislava Golicheva has been interviewed by the Bulgarian National Radio and her poems have been included in Rodna Rech Magazine, Prolet Moia Poetry Collection (2011), and FACECONTROL - Student Poetry Anthology from Sofia University (2005).
Her first poetry collection, and the only one published so far, is Ехо от въздишки / Echo of Sighs (2004).
Desislava Golicheva is currently pursuing a career in ceramics, having been introduced to the beauty and diversity of ceramic art. Her works have been presented at the House of Culture in Plovdiv. She is working on her next poetry collection alongside her ceramics pursuits.
