On September 8, the director of Mykolaiv Zoo, Volodymyr Topchy, presented his collection of poems at a creative dinner in the Central Library named after M.L. Kropyvnytskyi. The pleasant, relaxed, light and warm atmosphere immersed the guests in pleasant emotions. In the author's poetry, the Japanese style of Hoku is present, therefore, in the design of the event, there were oriental motifs, even Japanese girls, who greeted everyone hospitably. This collection was born over the last year and a half in stormy times of hopelessness and terrible reality, so some poems are about this. But there are also lyrical and philosophical ones, they are all different, they involuntarily make you think, delve into yourself, feel the meaning and value of something personal. We knew Volodymyr Topchy as a naturalist, traveler, photographer, connoisseur of antiques, founder of the zoo museum, director, author of many books about the zoo, and now we will also know him as a poet, because we hope there will be more...