Croatian Poetry
This Croatian poetry neatly dovetails with the City & Country festival theme, one of the poets, Slađan Lipovec, examining Nature, a frequent revivalist theme in contemporary poetry. Editor Milos Drdevic writes: "Nature in his poems appears as the widest, global framework of life and as a powerful, all-encompassing current that permeates and connects urban and rural spaces and has a deep impact on the way every individual leads his or her life." How does this come out in his poems? Quite distinctively and playfully, it transpires:
when they called me I turned down
the music put aside
the book and climbed out of
the parentheses and then we drink
coffee and brandy spit
in our hands take up
the pitchforks and load
manure . . . (‘1996. Just Another Morning')
