Poet (b. 1962, Manisa). He graduated
from Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Basic Art and Sciences (1985). He completed his master’s in the same
faculty. He established Şiir Atı Publications with his associates in 1985. He works in the advertising business in
İstanbul.
His poems, articles and photos about
painting, literature and poetry have been published in the reviews Üç Çiçek, Yarın, Gösteri, İmge/Ayrım, Bürde,
Düşler, İnsan, Bahçe, İpek Dili, Est & Non, Yönelişler, Şiir Atı, Sombahar,
Kaşgar etc. and in the newspapers Güneş,
Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Milliyet, Özgür Gündem, Yeni Şafak, Zaman. He
is one of the publishers of reviews Şiir
Atı and Kaşgar.
He received an honorable mention from
the journal Yarın in the field of poetry critique in 1983 and an
honorable mention at the Enka Science and Art Awards with his poems in 1986
with M.C. Anday, N. Cumalı, H. Altunç and Ş. Altınel. He won the 1982 Behçet
Necatigil Poetry Award with his first book Melek
Geçti (An Angel Passed) and the Writers Union of Turkey Award for Şer
Cisimler (Evil Things) in 2000.
WORKS (Poetry):
Melek
Geçti (An Angel
Passed, 1992), Şer Cisimler (Evil
Things, 2000), Eksik Tay (Defective
Colt, 2001).