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Jelena Dinić

Jelena Dinić arrived in Australia in 1993 during the collapse of Yugoslavia. She writes in Serbian and English. She is the recipient of the George Town Literary Exchange and The Arts Space residency in Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, and the Eleanor Dark Foundation Varuna Writers’ Retreat in the Blue Mountains and the Lighthouse Arts Hunter Residency. Jelena’s poetry and short stories have been published in journals and anthologies including Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Anthology, Australian Poetry Journal, Best Australian Poems, Going Down Swinging, Jacaranda, Saltbush Review and Westerly, among others. In the Room with the She Wolf, her first book of poems, was winner of the 2020 Adelaide Festival Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award and the Mary Gilmore Award for the best first book of poetry published in Australia in 2021. Jelena’s second poetry collection The Bridge was published in March 2026 by Wakefield Press.

‘Becoming one with landscapes’: Jelena Dinić in conversation with David Ishaya Osu

Posted on November 6, 2026 by Jelena Dinić

There is a characteristic lucidity in the poetry of Jelena Dinić: in how she experiences the world and fosters a flowing, expansive insight into phenomena of existence through stanzas. Her images invite you to re-envisage equations between lived time and continuing currents of being. When Jelena writes that “the sky takes the last look,” what direction or position of knowledge is the poet pointing us to? What (and how) does the poet want us to see? What motive vision would such phenomenological process illume?

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