Furkan Çirkin is a poet, editor and academic. He received two bachelor’s degrees in law and philosophy, a master’s degree and a PhD from Istanbul University. He holds numerous prestigious poetry awards in Turkey. His poems have been published in many respected poetry journals, including Varlik, the oldest one, and translated into many languages, including French, Italian, Persian and Romanian. He has been publishing Yelkensiz Poetry Journal in Turkey since 2013. He has three poetry books: Nihilist Alarm, Ser/h, and My Life: A Colourful Pitch-Dark. He translated Percy Bysshe Shelley’s book The Mask of Anarchy into Turkish. He is a PhD(c) for his second PhD and an assistant lecturer at the University of Essex, and currently lives in Colchester with his wife, curator and artist Hiromi Horiuchi.
