When he and his family arrived in 1996, he initially worked as a labourer and studied English, but eventually established himself as a respected, award-winning poet and co-owner of the Toronto restaurant and literary meeting place Fellini’s Shoe
Brilliant and inspiring, yet deeply scarred by the Siege of Sarajevo, Goran Simic was a prolific poet, essayist, journalist, librettist and producer of puppet plays. His literary journey began in 1976, with his works eventually appearing in anthologies and translations worldwide., an opera featuring traditional Bosnian sevdah music, by Scottish composer and humanitarian Nigel Osborne. Mr. Simic’s play for children,was performed at Sarajevo Youth Theatre for more than 16 years.
With the beginning of the war, Mr. Simic and Professor Zdenko Lesic, along with other writers, formed a crisis headquarters where they provided help for other artists within the city under siege. They distributed food and money sent from abroad. His poetic style was also affected by feeling like an ex-man – as though he was no longer fully a man – or a traitor because he left his home to live in another place. As a poet, he wanted to capture reality, but on the other hand, he wanted to forget this painful part of his life. He reconciled this conflict by adopting a quasi-journalistic approach.
Years later, he would be a respected, well-reviewed and award-winning poet in Canada. He was a writer-in-exile at the University of Guelph and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. But it took many years and many hours in food bank queues talking to other immigrants before he began to find his legs and voice.
The Canadian poet Paul Vermeersch wrote in his review of the book: “With free verse like Simic’s, there’s not a lot of metrical pyrotechnics: no glaring rhymes, no prosodic snaps … but that’s not to say these poems suffer from a lack of lyrical finesse. On the contrary, Simic’s rhythms remain smooth and, for the most part natural sounding.
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