Professor Debra Kelly, Deputy Director of the AHRC Open World Research Initiative ResearchProgramme Language Acts and Worldmaking led by King’s CollegeLondon andofits research centre based there has posted recently a review on Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani’s work on the Language Acts blog:

“In the pulsing heart of language, of languages, words and images and sounds interweave, vibrate; memories and experiences and places intertwine, reverberate; symbols recur, resonate. Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani’s multilingual and multisensorial performance-practice engages multifaceted corporeal, emotional and intellectual experiences of the poet and of her readers /listeners/spectators/audience in English, French, Croatian and beyond, not least in the ‘shadow language’ Arabic.”

The full text of Debra Kelly’s blog piece can be found here: https://languageacts.org/blog/in-the-heart-of-language-multilingual-performance-practice-with-jasmina-bolfek-radovani/

Jasmina is a London-based poet of mixed heritage (father Croatian-mother Algerian) born in Zagreb, Croatia. Her most recent multilingual poetry collection Knitting drum machines for exiled tongues in English, French and Croatian was published by Tears in the…