Serbian Poetry

By Luna Gradinšćak

One young Serbian artist, Nadija Rebronja, tries to put 21st-century reality into a poetic form, in her Flamenco utopia. Born in 1982, she writes about contemporary life by listening to others in her presence. Whether it is a friend, acquaintance or just some noises on the street, she puts herself in a listener’s position and conveys a sort of perceived reality in her poems. The simplicity (but not banality) with which the author transforms philosophical disagreements of the 21st century allows her to achieve something of the effect that we find in the work of great contemporary poets, such as Vasko Popa. Rebronja’s effort to poeticise the unpoetic reminds us of Popa. Here is one of Rebronja’s poems:

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