Abstract
<jats:p>Ukrainian literary Baroque has long been subject to various interpretations, often receiving sceptical and therefore inadequate attitudes, as it was based on European models but had its own Ukrainian sources. It is noteworthy that it is absent from Russian literature. Since the late 1980s, Baroque traditions have been revived in Ukrainian literature. Among the creators of the neo-baroque pleiad is the contemporary writer from Vinnytsia, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine Mykola Hedz. Among the various modifications of his works are lyrical etudes, lyrical monologues, lyrical portraits, meditations, in particular in the form of sonnets, works in the neo-baroque style – acrostic poems, figured poems, anagrams, palindromes, brachicolons – and even literary fairy tales, where the characters are personified literary concepts.. In his neo-baroque works, the author not only artistically interprets new visions of abstract and concrete concepts, but also seeks to enrich the treasury of literary terms with them. One of his attempts is the introduction of a new lyrical genre, the Venzle-Poem. The Neo-Baroque discourse of M. Heds has signs of artistic informativeness. The poet has not only mastered the genre varieties of Baroque verse, but also managed to renew and enrich their form and content. The writer effectively uses the forms of acrostic, mesostic, telestic, the possibilities of palindrome, anagram, symbolisation of the image to create new artistic meanings. To enrich the figurative content of his works, he uses not only established techniques, but also his own individually authored ones: reading individual letters, parts of the text following the path of a chess knight, сorner delivery, Venzle, three vertical rows of letters of a key phrase, reading an acro-teestich along the contour of its text, etc. Attempts to synthesise the visual action of established and author-invented techniques are artistically successful. At a time when people are losing interest in reading, Neo-Baroque works, including those by M. Heds, can serve as a unique catalyst for an intellectual and spiritual game, which is the foundation of communication between the reader and the writer.</jats:p>