About the book: 2020 / The book "Currant Forest" includes lyrical poems written in 2015-2018, and several earlier ones. Marina Chirkova's poems were published in Russia in newspapers “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, “Moskovsky Literator”; in the magazines “Reserve”, “Ring A”, “Smuggling”, “Russian Bell”, “Futurum ART”, “Southern Star”; in the Czech Republic in the magazine “Prague Parnassus”; in the USA in the magazine “Sinister Wisdom”; on the electronic resources “TOPOS”, “Floors”, “MEGALIT”, “45th parallel”, “Article”, etc.; The author is a member of the Russian Writers' Union.