Tag: Müesser Yeniay

• A Celebration of Women’s Poetry for International Women’s Day 2018

  

    ‘A History of Love Letters’ by Seanín Hughes   Miss said every time I told a lie, Baby Jesus had a nail hammered into his hand. She said I had a sad mouth, corners downturned, pointing to hell.   Stephen with the p-h had a mouth like sunshine. I gave him a token: a tiny toy […]

  Chris Murray

  March 4, 2018

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, Dispossession, How Words Play, International Women’s Day , Poetry, New Poetry From Ireland, Northern Irish Women Poets, poetry, Sound and Voice, translated poetry, Translation

  Dolonchampa Chakraborty, International Women’s Day, IWD, IWD2018, Jude Cowan Montague, Marie Curran, Müesser Yeniay, Mimi Khalvati, Poetry in translation, Seanín Hughes, Shakila Azizzada, Zuzanna Olszewska

• A celebration of women’s poetry for International Women’s Day 2017

  

  Featured image from “The Infinite Body Of Sensation” by Salma Caller Salma Ahmad Caller is an artist and a hybrid of cultures and faiths. She is drawn to hybrid and ornamental forms, and to how the body expresses itself in the mind to create an embodied ‘image’. UK based, she was born in Iraq to […]

  Chris Murray

  March 2, 2017

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, How Words Play, International Women’s Day, Magic, Maps, new poetry, New Poetry From Ireland, poetry, Single Poems, Small Books, translated poetry, Translation

  Doireann Ni Ghriofa, International Women’s Day 2017, IWD, IWD 2017, Kim Myeong-sun, Müesser Yeniay, Philo Ikonya, Salma Caller

• “The Wind of the World” & other poems by Müesser Yeniay

  

  The Wind of the World For my grandmother you are under the earth I am on the earth with your body that is tired of carrying the wind of this world -a stone in the middle of my heart has been rolling without stop- I don’t know where you have gone the only thing which […]

  Chris Murray

  December 16, 2016

  How Words Play, new poetry, poetry, Sites, translated poetry, Translation

  An Index Of Women Poets, Müesser Yeniay, poetry, Turkey

• “Morning in the Garden” in Şiirden 37

  My thanks to Müesser Yeniay who is editor of Şiirden Magazine (of Poetry) and who translated “Morning in the Garden” for issue 37 of the magazine. The poem first appeared in ANU 48 (Editor, Amos Grieg). You can read some of Müesser Yeniay’s work at the following links, Three Poems, Phoenix and other poems, and Kafes […]

  Chris Murray

  September 17, 2016

  How Words Play, new poetry, Nomadics, poetry, translated poetry, Translation

  (of Poetry), C. Murray, Müesser Yeniay, Şiirden Magazine

• “Kafes” (The Cage) and other poems by Müesser Yeniay

  

  Carvansarai of Night Tonight here should be dance of words -in the carvansarai of your glory- tonight I am as joyful as the grasses that saw the sun and full with the existence of my dream.   Kafes (The Cage) Like a bird looking for its cage, I am flying around time In my chest, […]

  Chris Murray

  July 21, 2016

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Dispossession, Magic, new poetry, Nomadics, translated poetry, Translation

  An Index Of Women Poets, Kafes, Müesser Yeniay

• “Phoenix” and other poems by Müesser Yeniay

  The House of God   We landed from the house of God to the island of heart we came into being we are at the house of earth bodies are celestial   Phoenix Poeta pirata est I should be a phoenix to the peaks of my imagination I should see the tips of my horizon […]

  Chris Murray

  June 17, 2015

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, How Words Play, Images, poetry, Sites, translated poetry, Translation

  Contemporary Women Poets, Müesser Yeniay, new poetry, Turkey

• Three Poems by Müesser Yeniay

  Flower Village I learnt how to stand put from a flower   Saw no other sun drank no other water   I recognized my roots as a village my earth, the sky   Seasons passed above me a nest of ants, bosom friends   I learnt how to be a flower solely… solely, standing put […]

  Chris Murray

  July 12, 2014

  Images, Letters, Maps, Poets, translated poetry

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Müesser Yeniay, poetry, Three Poems, Translation