I’LL BE BACK BEFORE YOU KNOW IT (Pighog Press 2009)
The shadow and tenor of two tongues, cultures, histories, and sexualities are deftly embedded in her poetry — as is her use of forms, both in her traditional couplets and prose poems. She is willing to take risks, unafraid to display passion, and at the same time writes controlled intelligent verse. I’ll Be Back Before You Know It is a carefully considered collection of new poems.
ELSEWHERE (Pighog Press 2011)
translated by Ana Jelnikar and Maria Jastrzębska
ISBN 978 1906309 09 1
Elsewhere presents new and selected poems of the celebrated Slovenian poet Iztok Osojnik in a definitive English translation by Maria Jastrzebska and Ana Jelnikar. The volume captures the extraordinary breadth of Osojnik’s oeuvre, which addresses the rapid displacement and change experienced by his nation while maintaining an admirably international outlook. The poet’s travels to East Asia clearly provided him with a rich seam of experience and the jet-lagged flanerie of poems such as ‘Green Skyscrapers’ opens the way to a telling exploration of globalisation and cultural drift. A more lyrical persona comes to the fore in ‘Ode to a Hind,’ while selections from 2004’s Mister Today chart the moving and funny struggles of a character who pins the very meaning of life on poetry.
