Launch of after war by Dženana Vucic (Magandjin)

Join us for a Poetry Salon and introducing Dženana Vucic, the author of after war. The evening will feature readings from Shastra Deo, Ellen van Neerven and Gavin Yuan Gao.

ABOUT THE BOOK

after war is an unwavering exploration of brutality and its consequences, moving adroitly between personal experience and the written record to plumb the ‘after’ and ongoingness of war, genocide and displacement. Unfurling from the Bosnian war and its traumas, this searing debut examines identity and un/belonging; language and its elisions; history and how we remember it; violence and how we are implicated in it.

Through experiments in form and voice, Dženana Vucic’s deeply humane poetry bears witness not only to suffering, but to courage and strength. Generous and incisive, this extraordinary collection refuses to look away or submit to despair; it compels readers not to either.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dženana Vucic (she/they) is a Bosnian–Australian writer and editor based in Berlin. Her poems have been shortlisted for numerous prizes and her writing has been widely published, including in Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, Crikey, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, Overland, Sydney Review of Books and elsewhere. Dženana is a fiction editor at SAND and the reviews editor at Cordite Poetry Review.

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