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00:00:00 - Regarding a review of Barka's book "Bilyi Svit" and Ivan Bahrianyi

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00:01:46 - Regarding Ukrainian poetry and modernism

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00:04:32 - What is the critical reaction to your works currently in Ukraine?

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00:05:58 - Mykola Francuzenko's reaction to the critical reaction to Barka's work

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00:07:58 - Barka on his reception among the literary elite

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00:10:03 - Mykola Francuzenko on the importance of the publication of Barka's works in Ukraine and their connection to the Ukrainian people

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00:11:17 - Barka's reaction to Francuzenko's observation

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00:13:02 - Reminiscences of Barka about his youth and the loss of idiomatic characteristics of the Ukrainian language

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00:15:03 - What were the reasons behind the recent visits to you of people from Ukraine?

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00:24:29 - Mykola Francuzenko's view on the reaction to Barka in Ukraine

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00:26:49 - What is your personal reaction to the fact that Ukraine has (re)discovered you? Response: lack of Ukrainian epic poem.

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00:32:23 - Other Ukrainian editions of Barka's works

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00:34:20 - Translations of Barka into English

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00:42:38 - What is your current work and interests?

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00:44:51 - What is your opinion of the works of Ievhen Sverstiuk?

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00:45:03 - Tangential response involving Barka's reaction to Ukrainian emigre modernist poets (especially the New York Group) and Charles Péguy.

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00:51:49 - Direct response to the question regarding Sverstiuk

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00:53:30 - What young contemporary Ukrainian poets do you believe have potential?

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00:59:12 - Can you share your first reactions upon learning that Ukraine had declared independence? The impact of "Zhovtyi Kniaz'" on the independence referendum.

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01:04:32 - What are your thoughts about the then poets who have now become politicians?

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01:07:32 - Barka's opinion regarding Ivan Drach and Dmytro Pavlychko

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01:12:46 - Barka's relation to the concept of a "Rada" (council) vs "Sovietism"

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01:16:20 - Regarding poets as politicians

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01:20:55 - Mykola Francuzenko on Mykola Vinhranovs'kyi and his novel "Severyn Nalyvaiko"

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01:22:59 - Francuzenko regarding Mykola Bazhan and his past glorification of the Stalin era

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01:24:31 - Barka regarding the Vinhranvos'kyi novel and Severyn Nalyvaiko

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01:26:03 - Barka regarding Bazhan and the role of artists and poets glorifying or opposing political power

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01:32:28 - Regarding the open letter by Bohdan Boichuk against Vitalii Korotych

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01:33:29 - Regarding Barka's and Francuzenko's diets

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