Spirit of the times: Eight and a half decades since the departure of the 20th century poetess (2)

20.May 2026. Milan Milošević

The life and poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva between Eros and Thanatos

"She succumbed to the old decadent temptation to invent herself as a lurid, unacknowledged and misunderstood poetess; mother of her children and wife of her husband; lover of a young ephebe; person of a fairy-tale past; bard of an army doomed to destruction; student and friend, passionate companion. From these (and other) 'pictures of personality', she created poetry, the great poetry of our time. But she had no control over herself, no power of self-knowledge (and nurtured (that's ignorance). She was helpless, carefree and unhappy, surrounded by the 'nest' and alone, finding herself and getting lost, and making endless mistakes."

Spirit of Time: Six decades since the death of Anna Akhmatova (4)

22.April 2026 Milan Milošević

An echo of Ana Akhmatova's song about a difficult era in solitude as a couple

She was born in Odessa in the same year 1889 as Charlie Chaplin, Tolstoyeva Kreutzer Sonata and the Eiffel Tower, she wrote precisely about the joy of first love and the pain of a broken heart, she married three times and was the best friend of other people's husbands, she faced the death of her first husband, the poet Nikolai Gumilyov, and the enslavement of her son, she lost hope without self-pity, she turned her nation's personal pain and tragedies into immortal verses, she was dignified in solitude in her old age and she died on March 5, 1966, the same day and the same month that in 1953, Joseph Stalin died - on the day that she regularly solemnly celebrated at the end of her life

Spirit of Time: Six decades since the death of Anna Akhmatova (2)

02.April 2026 Milan Milošević

An echo of Ana Akhmatova's song about a difficult era and loneliness for two

She was born in Odessa in the same year 1889 as Charlie Chaplin, Tolstoyeva Kreutzer Sonata and the Eiffel Tower, she wrote precisely about the joy of first love and the pain of a broken heart, she married three times and was the best friend of other people's husbands, she faced the death of her first husband, the poet Nikolai Gumilyov, and the enslavement of her son, she lost hope without self-pity, she turned her nation's personal pain and tragedies into immortal verses, she was dignified in solitude in her old age and she died on March 5, 1966, the same day and the same month that in 1953, Joseph Stalin died - on the day that she regularly solemnly celebrated at the end of her life

Spirit of Time: Six decades since the death of Anna Akhmatova

25.March 2026. Milan Milošević

An echo of Ana Akhmatova's song about a difficult era and loneliness for two

She was born in Odessa in the same year 1889 as Charlie Chaplin, Tolstoyeva Kreutzer Sonata and the Eiffel Tower, she wrote precisely about the joy of first love and the pain of a broken heart, she married three times and was the best friend of other people's husbands, she faced the death of her first husband, the poet Nikolai Gumilyov, and the enslavement of her son, she lost hope without self-pity, she turned her nation's personal pain and tragedies into immortal verses, she was dignified in solitude in her old age and she died on March 5, 1966, the same day and the same month that in 1953, Joseph Stalin died - on the day that she regularly solemnly celebrated at the end of her life

Personal attitude

30.January 2026. Vladislava Vojnović

Refusal of the prize that makes the bazaar cackling

Whenever we see that some award is given not by the profession but by the profession, we all get a little sick, don't we? And if anyone wonders how to make a living from art and whether awards are actually the only materially meaningful moment in the life of an artist who is undervalued, underpaid and unpaid

Poetry

31.July 2025 Marjan Čakarević

That's it

Inger Christensen, That's it, translation from Danish by Jelena Vojinović, Treći trg, Belgrade 2025.

Interview: Radmila Petrović, poet

16.July 2025 Bratislav Nikolic

If the language is a tool, then the poet is the one who sharpens it anew

As a young economist, I was shocked by the coldness that reigns in companies, where everyone is "decent", everyone is at a distance, everyone respects procedures. As, at the same time, a young poet, I felt that inside they were hungry, hurt, desperate, in love. I knew it in myself and I wanted to write about it, in order to comfort those like me, that is, all those who will read

Poetry

09.July 2025 Marjan Čakarević

Conversation with a secret

Right from the title, therefore, one enters into a complex poetic and cultural-historical dialogue, which, however, instead of answers and explanations offers anxieties and doubts

Poetry

25.June 2025 Marjan Čakarević

Who we are, who we are with, where we are, where we are going

Ivan Antić, Kaisermühlen glitch (micro travelogue in three voices), PPM Enclave, 2025 Kaisermühlen is a district in Vienna, certainly not the first that comes to mind when one thinks of this city, but, with its bare and gray dystopian spaces, alienated "totalitarianism of dimensions", perhaps paradigmatic for the modern world. In this environment, three of Antič's lyrical heroes leave the impression of post-flanners, aimless street walkers, who move through the city space in which, despite the precisely recorded traces of human presence, it seems as if there is nothing.

Spirit of the times: Josif Brodsky (2)

19.June 2025 Milan Milošević

"What a biography they write with our Rije!"

The life and connections of an American citizen and a Russian poet and a Jew, born 85 years ago, an incomplete elementary school student, a metal apprentice, an assistant pathologist and geologist, a poet who was a victim of an ideological turn and political-literary intrigues, tried twice, twice placed in an insane asylum, attempted suicide because of love, for parasitism was sentenced to five years of exile with community service, which a tractor driver on the Danilovsky collective farm he did not appreciate it, nor the song about it, in the village of Norenska he enjoyed respect as an exile who rose up, "voluntarily" obtained a visa without the right to return and meet his parents, achieved a university career, won the Nobel Prize, was a poetic pop star, loved by women, loved cats, smoked a lot, died at 56 - and was buried for the second time in Venice, still a little far from Ezra Pound

Spirit of the times: Josif Brodsky (1)

11.June 2025 Milan Milošević

"What a biography they write with our Rije!"

The life and connections of an American citizen and a Russian poet and a Jew, born 85 years ago, an incomplete elementary school student, a metal apprentice, an assistant pathologist and geologist, a poet who was a victim of an ideological turn and political literary intrigues, he was tried twice, twice placed in an insane asylum, attempted suicide because of love, for parasitism was sentenced to five years of exile with community service, which a tractor driver on the Danilovsky collective farm did not appreciated as well as a song about it, enjoyed respect in the village of Norenska as an exile who rose up, "voluntarily" obtained a visa without the right to return and meet his parents, achieved a university career, won the Nobel Prize, was a poetic pop star, loved by women, loved cats, smoked a lot, died at 56 - and was buried for the second time in Venice, still a little far from Ezra Pound

Interview: Marko Tomaš, poet

16.April 2025 Bratislav Nikolic

Living for imperfections

People who build a long-term relationship do not always follow the same path. Along the way, they diverge, there is a misunderstanding and a discrepancy in expectations. Love, therefore, changes aggregate states, but if it persists, if people are ready to invest and fight for the relationship, then we can call it real love

Interview: Zvonko Karanović, poet

03.April 2025 Bratislav Nikolic

Everyone writes about themselves, and it gets tiring

Poetry is back in the open, many young people write verses, they are read everywhere, there are often more than a hundred visitors at the readings, and sometimes there is an entrance fee for these manifestations. Poetry is back in bookstores. Social networks are flooded with songs. An incredible turnaround has taken place, things unimaginable ten years ago

Getting to know each other

30.July 2024 S.Ć.

Poetry of Palestine in KC Grad

After a reading of a Russian drama whose authors were sentenced to six years in prison was organized ten days ago, KC Grad continues the presentation of literature whose countries are at war: a reading of Palestinian poetry is scheduled for Thursday

Recommendation

01.March 2024. Sonja Ciric

Follow me is a good title

The information offered to the reader by Nedim Sejdinović in the poetry collection "Follow me for more useful information" is beneficial, funny and poignant, bitter and sweet - it all depends on how you feel when you are in the mood.