{"product_id":"dreams-on-my-pillow-irina-dimitric-9781499011920","title":"Dreams on My Pillow","description":"In this collection, her first, Irina Dimitric ponders over her journey through life, from childhood in her wartime homeland to migrating to Australia in 1964. Her poems reveal her dreams and disappointments, joy and pain, the value of forgiveness and gratitude, her love of nature and her love of laughter without which, she maintains, life would be unbearable. Writing poetry and photography, her pastimes born at the time she cared for her aging mother, help her to make sense of the world and to go on loving life. She loves both free verse and form poetry, the latter learnt from her mentor Susan Budig at Mindful Poetry on Gather.com, who also baptised Irina's creation of a new form of \u003cem\u003etercet-tercetonine\u003c\/em\u003e, consisting of 3 lines: the first two lines rhyme; the third line contains a leonine or internal rhyme. See \u003cem\u003eHolden Barina\u003c\/em\u003e (p. 40) \u003cbr\u003e Encouraged by Susan to submit her poems for publication, this poem is among her poems published online and in print by Narrator Australia Volume Two. Another two \u003cem\u003etercetonines\u003c\/em\u003e appear in this collection: \u003cem\u003eJust an Ordinary Garden\u003c\/em\u003e (p. 8) and \u003cem\u003eCloud Gazing\u003c\/em\u003e (p. 32), the latter published by Narrator Australia Volume Three. \u003cbr\u003e Of all the forms set out as challenges by Susan Budig, \u003cem\u003echant royal\u003c\/em\u003e was the most difficult one. Susan assured her students that if they succeeded in mastering it, they would positively glow. Irina says she still glows whenever she reads \u003cem\u003eThe Ploughing of Marko Kralyevich with a Twist\u003c\/em\u003e (p. 36). Prince Marko and his horse Sarac (pronounced Shahratz, meaning piebald) were her favourite characters when as a child, sitting on her father's lap, she listened to him reading the poems about the Serbian battles against the Ottoman Turks. \u003cbr\u003e The title of the book is the title of the poem on page 28, written as a response to the challenge on Gather.com: \u003cem\u003ewrite a poem about winter\u003c\/em\u003e, but in warm Sydney she could only \u003cem\u003edream\u003c\/em\u003e about winter. Her connection with her homeland and Europe is very strong in her memory and in her heart. \u003cbr\u003e The photographs which accompany some of the poems were all taken between 2011 and 2014 except for the following three photos: Irina with her mother on p. 18 sent to her father, who was in a POW camp in Germany; Irina's father on p. 19 during the Anzac March in Sydney in 1989; Irina with her friend Nada on p. 38, who also appears as Nelly with her brother Joe in the poem \u003cem\u003eThe Silver Stream\u003c\/em\u003e (p. 29), remembering their happy childhood. \u003cbr\u003e She has found online an outlet for her creative expression and is grateful for the friendships she has formed in cyberspace and all the good things in this life on earth. The book ends aptly with \u003cem\u003ePrayers of Gratitude\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e Irina's work can be seen on her blog \u003cem\u003eIrina's Poetry Corner\u003c\/em\u003e http: \/\/irinadim.com Facebook https: \/\/www.facebook.com\/irina.dimitricstojic Twitter https: \/\/twitter.com\/kookadim \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irina Dimitric\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 149901192X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781499011920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Xlibris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.11d","brand":"Irina Dimitric","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458951590143,"sku":"9781499011920","price":20.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fa2d41c-808e-4691-a0a3-f82cf752ce01.jpg?v=1777407537","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dreams-on-my-pillow-irina-dimitric-9781499011920","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}