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Jen Hadfield

Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire and lives in Shetland, whose landscape and natural life persistently informs her work. Her second poetry book Nigh-No-Place (2008, Bloodaxe Books) won the T.S.Eliot Prize in 2008. Her third poetry collection, Byssus, was published by Picador in early 2014. She is currently Writer in Residence at Glasgow University and Glasgow School of Art, supported by Creative Scotland.

See her Picador profile here

Read her personal blog here

Translated Poems

Hakikat Truth

Bejan Matur

Kerbela dolunayı Full moon over Karbala

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Bir ağıtsa bu If this is a lament

Bejan Matur

İki rüyada büyümek Growing up in two dreams

Bejan Matur

Laleş Lalesh

Bejan Matur

Gölge Shadow

Bejan Matur

Tören giysileri Ceremonial robes

Bejan Matur

Her kadın kendi ağacını tanır Every woman knows her own tree

Bejan Matur

Ölü bir güneş A Dead Sun

Bejan Matur

Biliyorum söylenmeyeni I know the unspoken

Bejan Matur

Çocuk mezarlarlı The graves of children

Bejan Matur

Bahar yok There is no spring

Bejan Matur

Buzul Glacier

Bejan Matur

Sabır tanrısının tapinağinda konaklama In the temple of a patient god

Bejan Matur

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