International Writer’s Season of the Orange Word (2001)  Reader

Mr. Rickman read from the works of Bosnian poet Goran Simic at this literary festival.
Poem titles:

 “Dogs and Bones”
 “Beginning After Everything”
 “Christmas”
 “Sarajevo Spring”
All of these poems are found in Sprinting from the Graveyard, published by Oxford University Press in 1997.
Translations are by David Harsent.

1.  Other poetry by Goran Simic.

2.  Opera which used three of Simic’s poems in its libretto:

 Sarajevo, Nigel Osborne.
 Premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London in 1994.  (Also known as Sarajevo Factory)
3.  Books about the Bosnian Conflict, 1991-95.

4.  Books about the Siege of Sarjevo, 1992-96.

5.  Poetry  by David Harsent.

6.  See also the entry for The Sorrow of Sarajevo in the Radio/Recordings section.


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