Poet and
translator (b. 1958, Ankara). He attended primary and secondary schools in
Ankara. For a while he studied at the Sociology Department of the North London.
He graduated from South Bank University, Department of Social Sciences (London).
His first poems were published in the magazine Edebiyat (1976). His later poems were published in Diriliş, Mavera, Aylık Dergi, Yeni Devir,
Oluşum, and his translations from Turkish to English were published in
various European magazines. He was among the founders of the review Aylık Dergi together with Yaşar Kaplan,
Faruk Uysal, Adnan Tekşen, Ahmet Şirin and Alaeddin Özgür. He published an
international journal in English called
CORE with Feyyaz Kayacan in London.
WORKS:
POETRY: Kayıtlarda Zulüm
Vardı (There was Torture in the Records, 1982), Barikatlar
(Barriers, 1986), Bir Garibin Şiir Defteri (The Poetry Book of a Poor,
1989).
TRANSLATION
INTO TURKISH: R. D. Laing / Çocuklarla
Sohbetler (R. D. Laing / Conversations with Children, 1993).
TRANSLATION
INTO ENGLISH: Arif Ay / Flowering
Sky-Poems (1995), Asaf Halet Çelebi /
Nurusiyah-Poems (1995), Broken Language-101
Princes by 101 Poets-An Anthology of Turkish Poetry (1996), İstanbul Poems-A Selection (1996).