Author Description

What if we view poetry as a visual medium? How would you set a movie scene with only a few words about love and dreams? Irene's poems do just that, taking you into magic visuals about nature, love, and dreams. They will tell you stories of grief, despair, and awareness of the modern world's troubles. With a keen eye for detail, she writes poems with profound emotions. Step into it to be lost in fairytales, haunted by ghosts, dreams, and memories. Irene Smirnova is an award-winning visual and digital artist who has contributed to over sixty films and TV shows. Her artwork is exhibited in Canada and US. Irene's poetry is inseparable from her visual art. The poems in the Iriada Tales collection have five themes: Nature, Fables, Dreams, Love, Cities, and Mind. Stunning imagery and cinematographic tone dominate the Dreams and Nature chapters. In Love, romantic, yet unpretentious poems confess to love, falling in love, breaking promises, and loving forever. A philosophical view about the subject of love makes those poems stand out from the ordinary. While questions about mind, matters of the world break into dynamic verse in Fables, Cities and Mind. Irene's poetry brings awareness about environment, grief, responsibilities of humankind. You will find stories that resemble fairy tales, fables and legends. Irene describes how much of her poetry is inspired by her grandmother's stories, her own travels, real-life events, and meditative reflections on philosophy. "I am talking to the subconscious of the Earth; It spells the rivers flooding". An enigmatic, magical world is crafted in each poem.