Turkish, also referred to as Istanbul Turkish(İstanbul Türkçesi) or Turkey Turkish (Türkiye Türkçesi), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 70 to 80 million speakers, the national language of Turkey. Outside its native country, significant...
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Gülten Akın
Translator's Note - Gülten Akın (1933-2015) occupies a very important place in the Turkish Poetry of the twentieth century. She was the first woman poet to challenge and break the male stranglehold on poetry. Her early volumes, a mixture of smouldering anger,...
Orhan Veli
Translator's Note - It would be hard to overstate the importance of Orhan Veli within the body of twentieth century Turkish poetry. He is the original enfant terrible, the punk who tore the edifice of the older poetry down and replaced it with something that still...
İlhan Berk
Translated from the Turkish by Neil P. Doherty Goat Path Idly I sat down and listened to the windon her way back from SagittariusThen onto the utterances of the river I passed.The night laden with grassas I strolled by it did not see me. The road lifted its headand...
Lying Still She Is – Carola Eijsenring
The Burning Blood group presents poem 'Lying still she is' in English and Dutch. The Brazilian dancer is Vitoria Aquino. The Indo didgeridoo player is Erik Deckert. The video is created by the Turkish filmmaker Deniz Tuzcuoglu. The poem is recited by the poet, Carola...
Gonca Özmen
Translated from the Turkish by Neil P. Doherty The Moon to the one with the mineral eyes I I spoke of these- not to you- but to a woman with a starred foreheadOnce upon a time we were reciprocal we were symmetricalHer words we untangled they were the joints of my...
Bijan Elahi and the Rise of Sufi Experimental Poetry in Persian – Mahdi Ganjavi
July 7th marks the birthday of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), a modernist, experimental poet who has posthumously acquired a position in Persian modern poetry that only a few canonical poets, like Nima Youshij (1897-1960), Ahmad Shamlou (1925-2000), and Forough Farakhozad...