They say about the poet: historian and translator Andrei Pavlyshin; poet, translator Ostap Slivinsky; writer Victoria Amelina, author of the book about the house of Lem in Lviv; Oles Dzyndra, artist, founder of the Museum of Ideas in Lviv; poet, translator, curator of the literary part of the festival "City of Lema" Galina Kruk; Lecturer of Philosophy of the University of Western Ontario Svetlana Matvienko