Poet and writer (b. 1914, Preveze – d. 1992,
In his teenage
years Enver Tuncalp began to write poems. He published his first poem in the Bursa Halkın Sesi newspaper in 1931. There was chiefly an interest in his quatrains, which
along with his writing, were published by a lot of journals, newspapers and
annuals. A few of his poems were set to music. His articles and poems were
published in intellectual, literary, social and religious art journals such as Hâkimiyet, Medeniyet, Yeni İstanbul, Hürsöz and
in other newspapers, Millet, Hakka Doğru, Kaynak , Köy Postası, Savaş,
Damla, Rüzgâr, Toprak, Orkun ,
Din Yolu, İslâm, Hilâl, Türk Yurdu, Müslüman Sesi, Oku,
Çağır and Çağrı. He worked on many anthologies. His poem
WORKS:
POETRY: Trakya Türküleri (Folk Songs of Thrace,
1941), Şaşkın Bakışlar (Bewildered
Glances, 1944), Tanrıya Dualar (Prayers
to God, 1947), Türküm Ne Mutlu Bana: Türk
Çocuğunun Şiirleri (How Happy for Me to be Turkish: Poems of a Turkish
child, 1950 ), Gaziantep'in Halkı (The People of Gaziantep, 958), Şükürname (The Book of Gratitude,
1959), İntikam Destanı (The Epic of
Revenge, 1964), Orman İçinde (In the
Forest, 1967), Herşey (Everything,
1970), Çiçek Açan Seccade (The Prayer
Rug that Blooms Flowers, 1972), Üçler
Yolu (Three’s Ways, 1972), Kışladan Sesler
(Voice from the Barracks, 1972),
Cumhuriyetin 50. Yıl Destanı (The Republic’s Fiftieth Year Epic, 1973), Mevlânâ Sevgisi (Love of Mevlana,
1973), İlahi Sesler: İslâmın Binası (The
Voices of a Hymn: Islam’s Structure, 1973),
İlahi Sesler: İnandım İman Ettim (The Voices of a Hymn: I Believed and Had
Faith in God, 1974), Üçler Divanı (Threes
Divan*s, with M. Şeker and M. Bayram), 1975),
Anne Baba ve Ata Sevgisi (Love of Mother, Father and Forefathers, 1975), Teknolojide Teknik Şiir Denemeleri (Experiment
of Technical Poems in Technology, 1976),
Besteli Güfteler, Güftesiz Besteler (Lyrics with Tunes, Lyrics without
Tunes,1976), 1979 Çocuk Yılı Dolayısıyla
Türk ve Dünya Çocuklarına Armağan (The Gift to Turkish and Children of the
World for the 1979 “Year of the Child”, 1980), Bağlıyız Atatürk'e (We are Connected to Atatürk,1981), Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh (Peace at
Home, Peace in the World, 1986).
COLLECTION-RESEARCH: Manzum
Buhari-i Şerif: Peygamber Sözleri (Written in the Verse of Buhari-i Şerif:
Words from the Prophet, 1950), Ramazanın
Kudsiyeti ve Oruç (Ramadan’s Holiness and Fasting, 1957), İslâmda Mutlu Günler (Happy Days in
Islam, 1960), Kur'an-ı Kerim'den Ayetler (Verses
from the Koran, 1960), Millî Misak -
Kızıl Tehlike (National Pact-Red Danger, 1965), Yeşil Ay Ülküsü (Green Moon Ideal, 1968), Türkçülük ve Türkiye Sevgisi (Being Turkish and the Love of
Turkey, 1968), Alkol ve Sarhoş (Alcohol
and Drunkenness, 1968), Silah Aşımı (Weapon
Excess, 1969), Asalak: Siyon (Parasite:
Siyon, 1969), Mezar Taşları ve Manzum
Kitabeler (Grave Stones and Inscriptions Written in Verse, 1971), Yaş mı Kuru mu? (Is it Wet or Dry?
1971), Kur'an'dan Bize Haber: 28
Peygamber (News from the Koran to Us, 28 Prophets, 1972), Alparslan ve Malazgirt Destanı (Alparslan
and the Epic of Malazgirt, 1973), Manzum
Biyografi (Biography Written in Verse, 1974), Müslüman Türkler İçin Manzum Dualar (Prayers Written in Verse for
Muslim Turks, 1976), Gönül Tahtında
Güzide - Şair ve Yazar Güzide Taranoğlu (Güzide in the Heart’s Throne- Poet
and author Güzide Taranoğlu, 1979).