Blog

During each residency, guests will publish blog entries through which the interested public will be able to track their journey through the locations included in the project.

Ulysses's Shelter 1 (2018/2019) residents: Christos Armando Gezos, Greece, poetry; Lena Kallergi, Greece, poetry; Vasileia Oikonomou, Greece, poetry; Thanos Gogos, Greece, poetry; Lara Mitraković, Croatia, poetry; Jasmina Mujkić, Croatia, poetry; Goran Čolakhodžić, Croatia, poetry; Antej Jelenić, Croatia, poetry; Urška Kramberger, Slovenia, poetry; Denis Škofič, Slovenia, poetry; Aljaž Koprivnikar, Slovenia, poetry; Katja Gorečan, Slovenia, poetry.
 
Ulysses's Shelter 2 (2020/2022) residents: Maja Klarić, Croatia, poetry; Maja Ručević, Croatia, translation; Dino Pešut, Croatia, prose; Marija Andrijašević, Croatia; prose & poetry; Katja Grcić, Croatia, poetry; Josip Ivanović, Croatia, translation; Eluned Gramich, Wales, prose; Steven Hitchins, Wales, poetry; Lloyd Markham, Wales, prose; Elan Grug Muse, Wales, prose; Dylan Moore, Wales, prose & non-fiction travel writing; Morgan Owen, Wales, poetry; Maša Seničić, Serbia, poetry; Nataša Srdić, Serbia, translation; Danilo Lučić, Serbia, prose; Goran Stamenić, Serbia, prose; Katarina Mitrović, Serbia, poetry & prose; Vitomirka Trebovac, Serbia, poetry & prose; Dejan Koban, Slovenia, poetry; Davorin Lenko, Slovenia, prose; Katja Zakrajšek, Slovenia, translation; Tomo Podstenšek, Slovenia, prose, novel & short stories; Uroš Prah, Slovenia, poetry & translation; Ana Svetel, Slovenia, poetry & prose; Thomas Tsalapatis, Greece, prose; Marilena Papaioanou, Greece, prose; Dimitris Karakitsos, Greece, poetry; Filia Kanellopoulou, Greece, poetry; Nikolas Koutsodontis, Greece, poetry; Iakovos Anyfantakis, Greece, prose.
 
Ulysses's Shelter 3 (2022/2023) residents: Sven Popović, Croatia, prose, translation; Marina Gudelj, Croatia, prose; Tibor Hrs Pandur, Slovenia, poetry & translation; Ajda Bračič, Slovenia, pose; Sergej Harlamov, Slovenia, poetry; Tonia Tzirita Zacharatou, Greece, poetry; Marios Chatziprokopiou, Greece, poetry; Ivana Maksić, Serbia, poetry; Ognjen Aksentijević, Serbia, poetry & prose; Jake Butttigieg, Malta, poetry, prose & translation; Matthew Schembri, Malta, poetry, prose & translation; Jan Škrob, Czech Republic, poetry & translation; Marek Torčik, Czech Republic, poetry & prose; Esyllt Angharad Lewis, Wales, translation & prose; Ruqaya Izzidien, Wales, translation.

Ulysses's Shelter 3 (2023/2024) residents: Dora Šustić, Croatia, prose & screenplays; Lana Pukanić, Croatia, prose & essays; Aljaž Primožič, Slovenia, poetry & plays; Kaja Teržan, Slovenia, poetry; Nežka Struc, Slovenia, poetry; Ivan Antić, Slovenia, short stories, poetry & translation; Efstathia Paliotzika, Greece, poetry; Natassa Sideri, Greece, prose, theatre & translation; Jelena Žugić, Serbia, poetry, prose & translation; Virginia Monteforte, Malta, translation; Ryan Falzon, Malta, prose; Laura Torres, Spain, poetry; Jacobo Bergareche, Spain, prose; Aitana Ahrens, Spain, poetry & screenplays; Kristina Nesvedová, Czech Republic, prose; Sára Vybíralová, Czech Republic, prose & translation; Megan Angharad Hunter, Wales, prose & translation; Rebecca Wilson, Wales, screenplays.

Ulysses's Shelter 3 (2024/2025) residents: Luiza Bouharaoua, Croatia, prose; Josip Čekolj, Croatia, poetry; Danae Sioziou, Greece, poetry; Ioanna Lioutsia, Greece, translation, poetry & theatre; Višnja Begović, Serbia, poetry; Đorđe Božović, Serbia, prose & translation; Kat Storace, Malta, translation; Gabriel Schembri, Malta, prose; Klára Krásenská, Czech Republic, poetry; Ondřej Lipár, Czech Republic, poetry; Steffan Phillips, Wales, poetry; Emyr Humphreys, Wales, translation.

Lena Kallergi: Poem for Dane Zajc

Lena Kallergi

 

 

Poem for Dane Zajc

 

If our ancestors are people

whose homes we can visit

after they’re gone,

 

if we can sleep in their beds

and open their windows

to look at the tree they have looked at

in the afternoons,

 

and keep an image in our heads

of the same wardrobe,

the same small balcony,

 

and if their portraits on the walls

-honorary-

may haunt us in a sleepless night,

 

if our families are people

we never know well enough

though we need

to keep searching for details,

to look online for more of their words

in a language we understand,

 

and if we need to be able

to spell and articulate

their name correctly -

 

then you are my lost uncle

my mother’s distant cousin

my grandfather’s mysterious friend:

he mentioned you sometimes

but my mind wandered.

 

Then, you never really left this place

where I have been allowed to stay

for a few summer days

because we loved the same art form.

 

Then

I, a daughter you never met,

inside your last home

think about you,

write to you.


IMPRESSUM

 

Sandorf - publishing house founded in 2008, engaged in Croatian literature and literature in translation, and in a wide range of books in humanities.

 

Center for Research and Promotion of Urban Culture (CIP) is a non-profit association that has existed for twenty years. Established in 1998, it operates in the areas of culture and art, urbanism, youth mobility and social dialogue.

 

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