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Michelle Borzi

Michelle Borzi reviews ‘War Is Not the Season for Figs’ by Lidija Cvetkovic and ‘Modewarre: Home ground’ by Patricia Sykes

April 2005, no. 270 01 April 2005
A number of the poems in Lidija Cvetkovic’s first book stem from revisiting places and people in the war-torn country of her birth, the former Yugoslavia, but the poetry springs from an interrelated heritage. An Eastern European sensibility guides this poetry, informing and being informed by laconic Australian understanding. Poems that speak of ethnic and regional conflict, and of self, lovers a ... (read more)