Iryna Zahladko is a Czech-Ukrainian poet. Her 2024 Czech-language collection poses an uncomfortable question: can pacifism function as meaningful resistance when war has colonised even the most intimate spaces of daily life? The review traces how Zahladko's poems move from the inescapability of violence — across Ukraine, Gaza, and the United States — toward a tentative politics of care. A short, lucid piece of literary criticism from the Central European left, speaking to debates about (…)