Bejan Matur

İbrahim'in beni terketmesi

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Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of "Winds How Through the Mansions" by Bejan Matur (Turkey) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

四處是風的別墅

Winds Howl Through the Mansions

Bejan Matur comes from a Kurdish Alevi family and grew up in South-eastern Turkey at a time of virtual civil war. Her poetry draws not only on her own experiences but also on the oral traditions of her childhood, though these are not autobiographical works.

In the Temple of a Patient God

Ibrahimin Beni Terketmesi

Ruth Christie

Selçuk Berilgen

This collection covers the broad vision of mankind's history with a story of an individual journey: a pilgrimage in south-western Anatolia. Filled with Islamic reference and imagery, Turkish poet Bejan Matur presents complex ideas about the immensity of time, space and the cosmos.

How Abraham Abandoned Me

Doğunun kapısı Diyarbakır

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