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'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 Winner of the 2019 Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award, this collection beautifully charts the territory where cultures, languages and family life intersect.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.'
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More Than Holding On : New Poetry by Jelena Dinić and Jane Gibian
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 43-44)
— Review of In the Room with the She Wolf 2021 selected work poetry ; Beneath the Tree Line 2021 selected work poetry 'In an impressive first collection, the South Australian poet Jelena Dinić incorporates her Serbian heritage and memories of war-affected Yugoslavia into an Australian migration narrative of clear-sighted beauty. William Carlos Williams wrote in the introduction to Kora In Hell: Improvisations (1920): ‘Thus a poem is tough … solely from that attenuated power which draws perhaps many broken things into a dance giving them thus a full being.’ Although far from improvisational, Dinić’s poetry compositionally integrates both fragility and strength as it draws together diverse experiences of war trauma, cultural displacement, the petty administrative routines of immigration departments, a Malaysian writing fellowship, Australian icons (such as the rainwater tank), folklore, and bathing in the Adriatic Sea.' (Publication summary) -
A Trove of Ancestral Magic : Leila Lois Reviews ‘In the Room with the She Wolf’ by Jelena Dinic
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;
— Review of In the Room with the She Wolf 2021 selected work poetry'In the Room with the She Wolf, the winner of Wakefield Press/Arts South Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award is a great debut from a vital emerging voice, Jelena Dinić.' (Introduction)
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Unspoken Ironies and Double Meanings : Mike Ladd Launches In the Room with the She Wolf by Jelena Dinic
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;
— Review of In the Room with the She Wolf 2021 selected work poetry'Jelena Dinic’s In the Room with the She Wolf was the winner of the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Unpublished Manuscript prize. Unpublished no longer. Here it is in another handsome production by Wakefield Press. Congratulations Jelena you’ve worked hard and long for this. It’s no small thing to achieve this level of poetry in a new language and a new culture.' (Introduction)
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Unspoken Ironies and Double Meanings : Mike Ladd Launches In the Room with the She Wolf by Jelena Dinic
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;
— Review of In the Room with the She Wolf 2021 selected work poetry'Jelena Dinic’s In the Room with the She Wolf was the winner of the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Unpublished Manuscript prize. Unpublished no longer. Here it is in another handsome production by Wakefield Press. Congratulations Jelena you’ve worked hard and long for this. It’s no small thing to achieve this level of poetry in a new language and a new culture.' (Introduction)
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More Than Holding On : New Poetry by Jelena Dinić and Jane Gibian
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 43-44)
— Review of In the Room with the She Wolf 2021 selected work poetry ; Beneath the Tree Line 2021 selected work poetry 'In an impressive first collection, the South Australian poet Jelena Dinić incorporates her Serbian heritage and memories of war-affected Yugoslavia into an Australian migration narrative of clear-sighted beauty. William Carlos Williams wrote in the introduction to Kora In Hell: Improvisations (1920): ‘Thus a poem is tough … solely from that attenuated power which draws perhaps many broken things into a dance giving them thus a full being.’ Although far from improvisational, Dinić’s poetry compositionally integrates both fragility and strength as it draws together diverse experiences of war trauma, cultural displacement, the petty administrative routines of immigration departments, a Malaysian writing fellowship, Australian icons (such as the rainwater tank), folklore, and bathing in the Adriatic Sea.' (Publication summary) -
A Trove of Ancestral Magic : Leila Lois Reviews ‘In the Room with the She Wolf’ by Jelena Dinic
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;
— Review of In the Room with the She Wolf 2021 selected work poetry'In the Room with the She Wolf, the winner of Wakefield Press/Arts South Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award is a great debut from a vital emerging voice, Jelena Dinić.' (Introduction)
