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Saća / Honeycombs / Waben
poetry collection
Saća (Honeycombs / Waben) is structured like a breviary: its four sections correspond to liturgical hours – matins, lauds, vespers, and compline. Yet, what takes place here is not prayer, but attention – an attentiveness toward the living, toward that which is named precisely because it is still present. In this framework, the human being is not the center of the world, but merely one of its many entities, existing among plants, animals, water, stone, and light.
The title of the collection is also a mirror image of its intention. Only seemingly rigid, but in fact pliant and thoroughly intertwined, the cells of a honeycomb are natural structures that resemble tissue, complex structures composed of many elements. All elements are dependent on each other – without coexistence, there is no life. Within honeycombs, there is life in complex togetherness.
Saća was published in May 2026 by Durieux in Zagreb, Croatia and can be found here.
Samo dobri demoni / Good Demons Only
poetry collection
Samo dobri demoni (Good Demons Only) intertwines human experience with other forms of life that shape our perception of what we refer to as nature. It delves into the understanding of our existence as part of the world – which is, in the poetry collection, understood as an environment and multi-species community. Chance encounters and perceptive openness are essential for the intimacy of the atmosphere in the poems, in which the human experience of encountering plants and animals is merged into linguistic forms of being. Language is thus allowed to grow beyond the limits of solitary existence and offer a vision of a more powerful reality that is only possible in connection with (an)other life.
An excerpt from the collection was published in German in March 2025 in the journal “Literatur und Kritik” (Salzburg, Austria). Samo dobri demoni was published in May 2026 by HDP (Croatian Writers’ Society) in Zagreb, Croatia and can be found here.