Tetyana Denford

Conversation With Grief Tetyana Denford

What do you want from me, I asked.
Everything you're not prepared to offer, grief said.
And so, we sat quietly,
listening to the noise of our rabbit hearts,
and gave our stories to each other. What if you learned to love the very thing you're scared of? conversation with grief is part of a series of three collections of poetry and prose taking the reader into the realization that learning about the 'big moments' in life means having raw and vulnerable conversations with yourself, with others, with memories, music, words, loss, and healing. In "conversation with grief", Tetyana sees a scale of life where grief and loss exist everywhere: within joy and pain, within beauty and tragedy. And ultimately, the hardest and most rewarding thing we can do is to sit with grief, talk to it, live with it like a friend we can learn from and heal with.

Tetyana's writing has been called "haunting", "bold and lyrical", "completely heartbreaking", and a beautiful study of connection, humanity, and how we can all learn from each other's stories."