An extensive selection of the poetry of Slave Gjorgjo Dimoski was published in Serbia
In the edition of "Arka" from Smederevo, in the edition "Macedonski Venec", an extensive selection of the poetry of Slave Gjorgjo Dimoski, titled "Reports of the Fox and Other Poems" in Serbia, was published on over 300 pages. The selection is bilingual, in Macedonian and in Serbian, in an extraordinary rendition of the poet and academician Risto Vasilevski.
This is Slave Gjorgjo Dimoski's sixth book in the Serbian language, and the previous ones are: "Word Meter" ("Word Meter"), "Field. Battlefield?'' For this occasion, the foreword of the book was specially written by Venko Andonovski.
- A poem is usually said to be great, and with that, after the work of Blaže Koneski, almost everyone agrees, if it is simple. It seems that the "infantilization" of language, strongly expressed in Dimoski, is one of the possible solutions for a simple poem. The poet says great things in easy, simple words. Words of the primordial, original, childish freshness of perceiving the world. It is known that all world languages have a clear tendency towards an extensive completion, rounding off, enrichment. For every new object in life, everyday language immediately invents a new word. The poet and the child here are "old-fashioned", but more creative. They don't need new words for new subjects. They will find someone old, forgotten. For example, they will say about the plane that it is a bird. They will say about the bird that it is an arrow. About the speed that is an eye. That work, that filigree craft of Slave Gjorgjo Dimoski, we are confident, will leave precious stones and "engravings" in the coffin of contemporary Macedonian poetry for a long time - wrote Venko Andonovski in the foreword of the book.
This is the second integral translation of the book "Izveštai na Risot", and last year it was published in the Slovenian language by the publishing house "Hisa Poezije" from Ljubljana, translated by Lara Mihovilović.
(The text was published in "Cultural Press" number 180, in the printed edition of the newspaper "Sloboden Pechat" on 27-28.5.2023)
