Pomegranate Garden: A Selection of Poems

Edited by Mel Kenne, Saliha Paker and
Caroline Stockford
A remarkable new selection from the
preeminent Turkish poet, Haydar Ergülen
The poetry of Haydar Ergülen unquestionably draws
upon and expresses many of the basic forces that
continue to shape Turkish culture and literature;
however, as with most of the best poetry produced

anywhere, its central focus is the common, down-
to-earth concerns of humanity itself. At the core of

Ergülen's work is the pervasive sense of poetry-writing
as an inseparable part of life: that the co-existence of
poetry, goodness and love is indispensable to the poet
as a human being.
The poems have been translated by Mel Kenne, Saliha
Paker, Caroline Stockford, Arzu Akbatur, Gökçenur
çelebioglu, Nilgün Dungan, Arzu Eker Roditakis,
Clifford Endres, Idil Karacadag, Elizabeth Pallitto,
Selhan Savcigil Endres, Ipek Seyalioglu, and Sehnaz
Tahir Gürçaglar.