In the Room with the She Wolf

Jelena Dinic came to Australia during the collapse of the war-torn former Yugoslavia and her poems are created from fractured landscapes. Winner of the 2019 Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award, this collection beautifully charts the territory where cultures, languages and family life intersect. Dinic publishes in both Serbian and English.

Jelena Dinic arrived in Australia in 1993. She writes in Serbian and in English. In 2014 she was a resident at the Eleanor Dark Foundation, Varuna Writers' Retreat in the Blue Mountains. The same year she co-edited the Friendly Street Poets Anthology, The Infinite Dirt. Her chapbook Buttons On My Dress was published in spring 2015 by Garron publishing. She is currently the principal of the Serbian Ethnic School, where she also teaches the language.

Praise for In the Room with the She Wolf

'Wonderfully original, with tiny details astringently observed. Here are impressively tough reports from this world's offerings among which the author stands stalwartly sending news of her refusal to buckle from the strong winds of migration. Here is a poet of elegance, wit and strength; hunting art, grace and beauty with her trusty microscope.' - Kate Llewellyn

'Concise, subtly erotic, with a smoulder of war and displacement - dreamlike, ironic, witty, this is the strange and wonderful personal theatre of Jelena Dinic's new collection. Whether in a Serbian cellar or a house in the Adelaide Hills, we are transported into a Balkan fairy-tale of love, death, ageing and the joys and miseries of family life. In the Room with the She Wolf is magical.' - Mike Ladd