Dženana Vucic’s *after war* is an unflinching exploration of violence and its consequences—filled with poems that oscillate between personal experience and written tradition to explore the “aftermath” and the enduring repercussions of war, genocide, and displacement.
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LAUNCH AFTER WAR
Taking the Bosnian War and its traumas as its starting point, this powerful debut explores themes such as identity and the sense of belonging (or not belonging), language and its gaps, history and the way we remember it, as well as violence and our own entanglement in it.
The poetry collection will be presented on July 30 in Berlin as part of a book launch featuring readings by the author and a discussion moderated by Alexander Wells.
Alexander Wells is a freelance writer and critic based in Berlin. His work has appeared in *The Guardian*, *Poetry*, *The Drift*, *Mekong Review*, and *Meanjin*, among others. From 2020 to 2025, he was the literary editor of the monthly print publication *The Berliner*. He is currently working on a book about birds.
Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian author, editor, and critic based in Berlin. Her work has been published in numerous publications, including *The Australian Book Review*, *Australian Poetry Journal*, *Overland*, *SAND*, and *Sydney Review of Books*. *after war* is her first collection of poetry.
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July 2026
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