Mykola Buchko reads his own poems

Chernivtsi, 1997. Program “Gray Eyes of My City”.

Mykola Buchko, walking around the city, reciting his poems: “To Olha Kobylianska”, ‘Near the Town Hall’, ‘Chernivtsi pavement’, ‘House ship’, ‘Soul of the house’, ‘House fish’.

On the video: Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Olha Kobylianska Literary and Memorial Museum (exterior and interior views); Chernivtsi City Council; Central Square; Eminescu and Ivan Franko streets; House of Ships; Panas Saksahanskoho street, the house where the poet Paul Celan lived; aerial views of the city; Yuriy Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi (exterior views).

Description: Mykola Buchko is a Ukrainian poet. He was born on August 19, 1948 in Vinnytsia region. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Chernivtsi. He worked as a journalist and editor of the Chernivtsi publishing house Misto. He was also engaged in publishing. He began his literary career in the 1960s. He is the author of the collections of poems “Sunrise”, “Towards the Summer”, “After the Ten Commandments or Poems for a Son”. A number of his poems were set to music.

Mykola Buchko died on June 2, 2017 in Chernivtsi.