Tag: Turkish

Junayd and Other Poems – Asaf Halet Çelebi

Translated from Turkish by Neil P. Doherty Junayd                             “leyse fi cübbeti sivallah”*                                junayd of baghdad   those who look at me see but my body...

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Poems by Edip Cansever

Edip Cansever (August 8, 1928 – May 28, 1986) was a Turkish poet, considered part of the  Ikinci Yeni movement which was a loosely affiliated group of poets who embraced modernism and brought about a revolution in Turkish poetry

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Two Poems from “835 Lines” by Nazım Hikmet

Nâzım Hikmet Ran,commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the “lyrical flow of his statements”. Described as a “romantic communist” and “romantic revolutionary”, he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated from Turkish by Neil P Doherty.

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  1. Can you please cite the original poem ? Where to find it in Bangla?

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