History-Geography by Karin Karakaşlı
This is the title poem of Karin Karakaşlı’s Chapbook published by the PTC. The poem was translated by Canan Marasligi and Sarah Howe.
Podcasts
Deserted by Karin Karakaslı
‘Deserted’ by Armenian-Turkish poet Karin Karakaslı was translated by Sarah Howe and Canan Marasligil. This poem is collected in Karakaşlı’s chapbook ‘History-Geography’
Galata by Karin Karakaşlı
Listen to ‘Galata’ by Karin Karakaşlı, translated by Sarah Howe and Canan Marasligil, a poem about the poet’s love of a medieval stone tower in Istanbul, Turkey.
In the temple of a patient god by Bejan Matur
Bejan Matur is an award-winning Kurdish-Alevi poet from Turkey writing in Turkish and Kurdish. Her poetry has been translated into English by poet Jen Hadfield and Canan Marasligil.
3 Short poems by Bejan Matur
Three short poems by Kurdish-Turkish Poet Bejen Matur, translated by Canan Marasligil and UK poet Jen Hadfield. The poems are ‘Dead Sun’, ‘There is no Sun’ and ‘Truth’.
Uniform by Karin Karakaşlı
‘Uniform’ by Armenian-Turkish Poet, Karin Karakaşlı, from her chapbook ‘History-Geography’ translated by poet Sarah Howe and Canan Marasligil
Ceremonial Robes by Bejan Matur
‘Ceremonial Robes’ by Kurdish-Turkish poet Bejan Matur, from her PTC chapbook ‘If This is a Lament’, translated by Jen Hadfield and Canan Marasligil.