Zdenka Bilobrk

The Forest Realm Zdenka Bilobrk

This is a very long poem, a work of consummate grace, written with intelligence and wit. The main protagonist is a young magpie. He is a child of the forest, inextricably connected, both physically and spiritually to everything in it. He is also a rebel and adventurer at heart and emphatic to a fault. After many adventures he falls in love and this is where the source of his rebellious nature and his inability to conform is revealed: his unflinching belief in love. And this is what the poem is about. Love and all the good things the emotion has to offer to all those who truly embrace its precepts.