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Join Šime Knežević to celebrate the release of In Your Dreams, a collection of ‘subtle, searching poems [that] hang in the mind’ (Saturday Paper).Šime will be in conversation with Dan Hogan at Better Read Than Dead on Tuesday 25 March. The event will also feature readings and book signings, with light refreshments available.
Knežević’s debut poetry book gestures towards the elusive and often fragmented reality of dreams and recollections. The poems speak of distance, dislocation and longing, evoked by the poet’s cultural ties to Croatia, the awkwardness of personal relations and the discomforts of language. They also convey the embarrassment and regret which spring from daily encounters, especially when the point of view is that of an adolescent, a lover, a rival, indeed a poet, endowed with a more than usual amount of self-consciousness.
These concerns are echoed, and heightened, by the elliptical form of the poems and their surreal dislocations, which invite the play of implication, giving space and silence their own kind of eloquence. The effect is remarkable, both for the range of emotions expressed, which includes humour and joy alongside unease and uncertainty, and for the intensity of their expression.
‘In these quiet, roving, reticent poems, the self is often something hard to pin down. Knežević looks in the usual places: childhood geographies, adolescent fantasies, memories of love or connection. But the selves he finds there are in transit, itinerant, guests… These subtle, searching poems hang in the mind.’
– Grace Roodenrys, The Saturday Paper
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EVENT DETAILS
Date: Tuesday 25 March
Time: From 6.30pm
Venue: Better Read Than Dead
Address: 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037
Tickets: https://www.betterreadevents.com/events/in-your-dreams-sime-knezevic-in-conversation-with-dan-hogan
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ŠIME KNEŽEVIĆ
Šime Knežević is a poet and playwright from Sydney with Croatian heritage. His poems have been published widely in Australian and international literary journals. His poetry chapbook The Hostage (2019) was a co-winner of the Subbed In Chapbook Prize. As a playwright, he recently co-wrote the stage musical The Hen House (2023) with his sisters, and is a graduate of the NIDA Playwrights Studio. His first book-length poetry collection is In Your Dreams (Giramondo, 2025).
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DAN HOGAN
Dan Hogan (they/them) is a working-class writer from San Remo, NSW, Australia (Awabakal and Darkinjung Country). Dan is the author of Secret Third Thing, which won the Mary Gilmore Award and Five Islands Prize, and was named one of the ‘best 25 Australian books of 2023’ by The Guardian. Dan’s work has been recognised by the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and Val Vallis Award, among others. Their work has appeared in Overland, The Stinging Fly, Meanjin, Jacobin, and elsewhere. In their spare time, Dan runs small DIY publisher Subbed In. More of their work can be found at: https://www.2dan2hogan.com/
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Learn more about Giramondo:
https://giramondopublishing.com/
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Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street,Sydney,NSW,Australia, Alexandria
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