Silvia Mikica

Silvia

The 3D-Me 


(The poems in my third poetry book in Serbia- 'Love from antique times'- were inspired by Greek mythology-this explains the costume I wore for a photoshoot ;p Wearing this felt like a past-life regression-therapy btw *wink wink*)

 
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 A friend recently reminded me again that writing is automatic wording. Indeed it is. This is why I feel the flow when writing. This is the feeling of being 'in the zone', in the moment of the flowing creative juices :) It is  channeling in a way. And this is also why, even very 'famous' writers, artists, musicians have told that -they think they will never be able to write/perform/make music again- when they are not writing/performing/making music. I also often wonder 'who wrote this', when reading my own work. The reason for that is that this did not come from the (mechanical, left-hemisphere-) mind in the first place. It came from another place ;)
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I write poetry in three languages: Serbian, English and Dutch:

~Some say it's impossible (or nearly impossible) to translate poetry. The technique in itself is not difficult: just translating words, but the interpretation of the words, the poem; that's the hard part.  In fact, you create a new poem by translating it, so it is a difficult task. But one I love! It's a game of balancing the words, synonyms.......saying the same in a different language.....and not losing the rhytm, soul, spirit, meaning of the original poem!! Keep that in mind when reading my poetry ;-)~

I write in English most of the time now, which is my third language. (started writing in English- summer 2009)

I want to put all my Serbian poems in Cyrillic, but the website decodes it into some alien looking font :0......Have to sort that out. My talents are not in the technical department ;p

"I" have published three books so far in Serbia, between 2004 and 2008.

The first two (poetry and short stories) were in both Serbian and Dutch, the third one only in Serbian (poetry)

My books:

1)Bosih nogu/Op blote voeten (2004) 27 poems, 9 short stories 

                 

2)Otvorenih ruku/Met open armen (2005) 35 poems

                 

3)Ljubav iz antickog doba (love poetry, inspired by Greek mythology ;-) (2008)

                 

Published in Belgrade, Publisher: "Partenon" 27 poems

While poetry is where my writing-heart is, I also write (short) stories (five- up to twenty pages- approx.) and I have a finished novel of short stories which is not exactly how I want it (yet) and I have many, many ideas lingering in my mind, waiting to be written.  

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~*~*I also write poetry (sometimes by request) for weddings&funerals, births&special occassions :) 

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**With my Beloved** (the reason the poet left her heart in West-Yorkshire ;p    ~See 'English poetry'~ :D )
 
   
 
   
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This is a picture of my third book in a bookstore in Serbia (with Che Guevarra on the left and NikolaTesla on the right :))- and for the Serbian readers- Momo Kapor)

And the same bookstore, a month later

 

Signing my books at the Belgrade Bookfair, October 2008

(after my book presentation there)

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  Much love,

  *Silvia*