Novica Tadić (Smriječno, Plužine, 17 July 1949 – Belgrade, 23 January 2011) was a Serbian poet.
He was born in a small village in Montenegro and spent most of his life in Belgrade.
His work was supported by many United States poets including Charles Simic, who translated Night Mail: Selected Poems, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Hoover, David Baratier and Andrei Codrescu.
Great wise night
Under the city walls
You pull me out of
The monster's socket
...
I dream how on a flat surface
I set down knives of various
shapes and sizes.
Already there are so many of them
...