Fog Bells: 8 Contemporary Turkish Poets Liu Heping Paul Chaoul – Excerpt from

Paul Chaoul – Excerpt from the play The Visitor

While in some parts of the region they were decimated within a generation

mesh and clash in pages of fizzing lyricism and dizzying colour

Breaking Shells is a tender

but unlike the other young men

Fog Bells: 8 Contemporary Turkish Poets Liu Heping Paul Chaoul – Excerpt fromTranslated by Istanbul based Irish translator Neil P Doherty, this compact, dual language introduction to contemporary Turkish poetry gathers a selection of work by eight of its most celebrated and engaging voices to provide a primer to what has been called one of the richest and yet least known veins of literary ore in the world. The featured poets are: Cevat apan, Mehmet Taner, Lale Mldr, Mustafa Kz, Elif Sofya, Birhan Keskin, Gkenur . and Gonca