Book Launch: The Bridge

Name: Book Launch: The Bridge
Start: 2026-03-17T08:00:00+10:30
Location: Ern Malley

Schedule

Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 am

UTC+10:30

Location

Ern Malley | Adelaide, SA

Join 2020 Adelaide Festival Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award winner Jelena Dinić as she launches her poetry collection, The Bridge, published by Wakefield Press.
To be launched by Peter Goldsworthy AM (Maestro, Honk If You Are Jesus, Three Dog Night).
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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 Dinić attempts to reconcile past and present, while acknowledging the fragility of the struggle.
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Jelena Dinić arrived in Australia in 1993 during the collapse of Yugoslavia. She writes in Serbian and English. She is the recipient of the George Town Literary Exchange and The Arts Space residency in Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, the Eleanor Dark Foundation Varuna Writers’ Retreat in the Blue Mountains, and the Lighthouse Arts Hunter Residency.
Jelena’s poems and short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies, including Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Anthology, Australian Poetry Journal, Best Australian Poems, Jacaranda, Saltbush Review, Going Down Swinging, Westerly, and the Canberra Times.
In the Room with the She Wolf, her first book of poems, was winner of the 2020 Adelaide Festival Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award, and the Mary Gilmore Award for the best first book of poetry published in Australia in 2021.