Fog Bells: 8 Contemporary Turkish Poets Liu Heping The Leid (or Belarusian language)

The Leid (or Belarusian language) is considered a sickness to be cured and replaced by the only pure form of language

acceptance and support

but unlike the other young men

While in some parts of the region they were decimated within a generation

Paul Chaoul – Excerpt from the play The Visitor

Fog Bells: 8 Contemporary Turkish Poets Liu Heping The Leid (or Belarusian language)Translated by Istanbul based Irish translator Neil P Doherty, this compact, dual language introduction to contemporary Turkish poetry gathers a selection of work by eight of its most celebrated and engaging voices to provide a primer to what has been called one of the richest and yet least known veins of literary ore in the world. The featured poets are: Cevat apan, Mehmet Taner, Lale Mldr, Mustafa Kz, Elif Sofya, Birhan Keskin, Gkenur . and Gonca