Forthcoming Release

Seasons from Other Seeds

by Mevlut Ceylan

Striking original poetry, crossing borders intellectually and internationally.

In the furthest corners of the world,

they found me on top of a mountain,

chasing the moon and stars.

Striking original poetry from Mevlut Ceylan, diplomat, scholar, and translator.

Ceylan explores the arts of living and dying, humanity’s relation to nature, and religious awe in the age of modernity.

Written originally in both English and Turkish, these poems express Ceylan’s raw relation to finite human history within an infinite human experience. 

About the Author

Mevlut Ceylan was born in Ankara and since 1979 has been living in self-imposed exile in London. He has published three collections of his own poetry in Turkish and has translated many Turkish poets into English, publishing a series of chapbooks from Core Publications of the work of Cahit Zarifoğlu, Arif Ay, Nuri Pakdil, Erdem Bayazıt and Asaf Halet Celebi among others, and editing two anthologies of Turkish poetry in translation.

He founded Core: An International Poetry Magazine with the poet Feyyaz Fergar in London. He has translated into Turkish selections from James Joyce’s Chamber Music, RD Laing’s Conversations with Children, and poems by Mahmoud Darwish, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Marvin X, Amiri Baraka, Kobi Nazrul Islam, among many others, in Turkish literary journals.