Metin Celâl
Author

Poems

DAÜSSILA turkish

Translations: de en it

ADIM ÖLÜM turkish

Translations: cs de en fr mk ro sk zh

BEDEN DİLİ turkish

Translations: de en fr

HİÇ DEĞERİM YOKMUŞ turkish

Translations: de fr

KONFORMIST turkish

Translations: cs de en fr it mk sk zh

KÜÇÜK ŞEYLERİN TEDİRGİNLİĞİ turkish

Translations: de fr

OTUZ YAŞ turkish

Translations: cs de en fr mk sk zh

ŞEY, AFFEDERSİNİZ turkish

Translations: cs de en fr sk zh

SİLİP ALNIMI SANA VARDIM turkish

Translations: de

YALNIZIM, YALNIZSIN, YALNIZIZ turkish

Translations: fr de en it

Metin Celâl
Author

About

* 13.03.1961, Ankara, Turkey
lives in: Istanbul, Turkey

Metin Celal (1961, Ankara - Turkey) Poet, writer.

He started his university education at the Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Petroleum Engineering (1982) and then gratuated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Journalism and Public Relations (1985). His first poem was published in 1980 (Olusum). At the same time he published poems and literary critics in the well known turkish literary journals (Varlik, Gosteri, Sanat Olayi..., 1980 - ). He is among the founders of the “1980s Poetry” movement. He and poet friends from the “1980s Poetry” movement published poetry journals; Imge/Ayrim (1984), Poetika (1985), Fanatik (1989). He found a Contemporary Turkish Poetry web site (turksiir.com) in english and turkish (1999 - ). His poems have been translated and published in 9 languages.

He worked as an editor in the publishing companies (Imge, Gunes) and literary magazines; Sombahar (Poetry, 1990 - 1996), E (Literature, 2003-), Ozgur Edebiyat (2007-13). He is the editor of the Parantez Publishing (1992 - ).

He is the Coordinator of the Istanbul Poetry Festival (2008 - ).