Jože Žohar, a Slovene migrant poet from Australia

• Published in: Acta Neophilologica
• Main Author: Maver, Igor
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakulte / Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts 2005
• Subjects: Slovene literature / Slovene migrant literature / Literary studies / Austarlia; slovenska književnost / literarne študije / slovenska izseljenska književnost / Avstralija; Eros; aurora australis
• Online Access: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/6244; https://doi.org/10.4312/an.38.1-2.113-117

Jože Žohar migrated »dawn under« to Australia in 1968 and struggles to pacify inside him the two homelands, Slovenia and Australia. In his three published collections of verse in the Slovene language (1990, 1995, 2004) the poet remains torn between the two countries, between Eros and Thanatos, betwe...