Poet (b. 11 March
1927, İstanbul - d. 11 October 1985). He also used the pen names Ali Haziranlı,
Etem Olgungil, Mehmet Emin and Nil Meteoğlu. He attended the Üsküdar Sultantepe
Elementary School and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of
Painting as a guest student for a while. A short story of him was published in Servet-i Fünûn, before his poems (1942).
His first poem was published in the Kovan
review (İzmir) with the pen name Mehmet Metin in 1943.
Later on, his
poems, short stories and criticisms appeared in the reviews Varlık, Yaprak and Yeditepe. His poems, where he constantly applied novelties, were
influenced initially by the Strange movement, and later by the Second New. He
was also renowned with his paintings. He received the Turkish Language
Association Poetry Award in 1971 with his work Dizin (Index).
WORKS (Poetry):
Düdüklü Tencere (Blowing Pan, 1951), Sultan
Bonito (1957), Odun (Wood, 1959),
Horozdan Korkan Oğlan (The Boys Who
Was Afraid of Roosters, 1960), Türkiye'nin
Adresi (The Address of Turkey, 1965), Ayşemayşe
(Ayşemayşe, 1968), Bektaşi Dedikleri
(The Man They Call Bektaşi, with Oğuz Tansel, with the patterns of Abidin Dino,
1970), Dizin (Index, 1971), Garip Şiirler (Strange Poems, anthology,
with Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan), Hep (All
the Time, 1982), Yine (Again, first
six books republished, 1982), Şiirce
(Poemly, three books republished, 1982), Ay
Parçası (Beautiful as the Moon,
1983), Önce Kadınlar (Women First,
1984), Bu
Yalnızlık Benim (This Solitude is Mine, 2003).
