Poet (10 March 1956, Ardı /
Horasan / Erzurum). He attended the Erzurum High School (1972) and graduated
from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine (1979). He worked as a doctor at
Bayındır State Hospital (1971-81) then after he worked as a psychiatry
assistant at Ege University (1985-87) and completed his compulsory service at
Muğla State Hospital. He continued his career at Ege University where he has
worked since 1989 serving as an academician (Prof. Dr.) at the Faculty of
Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. He is a member of the Turkish Authors
Association and the Psychiatric Association of Turkey.
His
first poem was published in the review Ilgaz in 1975 and his other poems have
been published in reviews such as Ilgaz,
Ankara Sanat, Türk Dili, Türkiye Yazıları, Yusufçuk, Sesimiz, Oluşum, Somut,
Dönemeç, Varlık, Yeni Düşün, Broy, Yeni Biçem, Kedi, İnsan, Şiir Ülkesi,
Şiir-lik, Dize, Yeni Sanat, Sözcükler, Ayrım, Körfez, Çağdaş Türk Dili, Düşler,
Yamaç, Ortaklaşa, Yazko-Edebiyat, Yeni Düşün, Yeni Yaprak, Şairin Atölyesi,
Yaklaşım, Poetik’us, Pencere, Düşlem, E, Edebiyat ve Eleştiri, Kül, Kum, Eski,
Agora, Yasakmeyve, Ünlem and Lacivert.
With an authentic lyric expression, he has written about despair, inner
problems and the conflicts of a human who is a social being but does not
communicate enough and humans affected by social disputes and oppression. He
supports that a poem is written with images, and images are formed by words,
therefore it would always be meaningful even if the poem were based on
association. Alper has also written on poetry issues, the formation process of
poetry, the creative artist psychodynamic, the creation process and creative
personality. He won the Orhon Murat Arıburnu Awards-Sabahattin Kudret Aksal
Poetry Special Award in 1999 with his book Şimdi
Hangi Irmakta (In Which River Now?)
WORKS
(Poetry):
Kanayan Şiirler (Bleeding Poems, 1985), Zamanın Kırılan Aynasında (On the Broken
Mirror of Time, 1989), Yaldızlı Bir
Yanılsama (A Gilded Illusion, 1994), Yeryüzüne
Vuran Telaş (Anxiety Hits the Earth, 1995), Şimdi Hangi Irmakta (In Which River Now?, 1998), Dalgaların Sesiyle (With the Sound of
Waves, 2001).
ESSAY-RESEARCH:
Herkes İçin Psikiyatri (Psychiatry
for Everyone, 1997, collaborative work), Depresyon
Psikoterapisi (Depression Psychotherapy, 1997), Bütün Yönleriyle Depresyon (All Aspects of Depression, 1999), Şiir ve Psikiyatri Kavşağında (At the
Juncture of Poetry and Psychiatry, 2001), Psikanaliz
ve Aşk (Psychoanalysis and Love, 2003),
Şair Her Zaman (Always a Poet, 2005),
Psikolojik-Psikodinamik Açıdan Nâzım Hikmet Şiiri (Poetry of Nâzım Hikmet
from a Psychological and Psychodynamic Perspective, 2005).