Women's Poetry from Montenegro

March 2017

This collection, originally featured in the March 2017 issue of Words Without Borders, spotlights three female poets who have expanded the traditional registers of Montenegrin literature.

Female Voices: Montenegrin Women Poets

By Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević

In the last three decades Montenegrin women authors have moved beyond and expanded the traditional registers.

An Open Wound

By Tanja Bakić

Water drinks me while I drink the water itself.

Translated from Montenegrin by Jim Phelps & Tanja Bakić

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Photo by Stefan Kunze on Unsplash

Time

By Dragana Tripković

I cannot promise you much but a gray street and passionate darkness in the Ides of March.

Translated from Montenegrin by Peter Stonelake

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Two Poems

By Jovanka Uljarević

A herald will knock on your door / with news about what is yet to come