War-torn, fractured Yugoslavia is the backdrop for this collection, poems grounded in the smoke of the Balkans and the hope generated by the promised peace of a new home. Inspired by Eastern European poetic traditions and the creativity and activism of Australian writers, Jelena Dinic attempts to reconcile past and present, while acknowledging the fragility of the struggle.
Praise for The Bridge
'Bridges real and imagined, between continents and people, crossing the Bosphorus or the Torrens, are a recurring motif in this exciting follow-up to Dinic's multi-award-winning first collection.' - Peter Goldsworthy
'Original, tender, feminine and imaginative, the poems often finish with a question or a deft thought. Entirely loveable, gentle and clever, the poems hold a serenity that skims over everything.' - Kate Llewelyn AO
'Dinic masterfully remakes love and loss into the small pleasures of daily life and its gifts of both hope and despair.' - Jennifer Rutherford
'The Bridge is that generous thing, a book that invites you in, sustains, and gives you an adroit lesson in poetry, on how the strange and intuitive are the framework for reality. And here I must sigh about her button poem, never has blank space been so tender, so adroitly sexy.' - Carol Jenkins
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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.
ISBN 9781923388567
CATEGORY Poetry
PAGE COUNT 84
DIMENSIONS 210 x 140 mm