Poems in the UK, USA, Canada, Serbia, Bangladesh, Iceland, France, etc. Nominated twice, shortlisted four times for international poetry prizes.
#ecopoetry
Among all of the museums we've visited in Europe, Museum of Torture in Prague and Nuclear Bunker Museum in Budapest are the most inspiring and amazing ones. ✨
#poetry
#poet
#prague
#budapest
"I'm good at this, this being alone
in the world..."
I keep coming back to this poem by
@adalimon
nowadays, thinking about silence and loneliness of a poet... Loneliness is the crown of the poet.
"Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive."
Euripides, Medea
#bookwormsat
#ofdarkandmacabre
Art by Stephen Mackey
"when I have been suffering at times I could / step away from it by embracing it, a blues thing, / a John Donne thing, divest by wrestling, then sing."
@dlseuss
🖤
I will be reading some new poems with
@berdeshevsky
next Sunday, Jan. 22, 12 pm PST, 3 pm EST, 9 pm Paris. Launching her new hybrid collection KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT. Register at:
"Bir kadın olarak, ülkem yok. Bir kadın olarak, bir ülkem olsun istemiyorum. Bir kadın olarak, bütün dünya benim ülkem." Virginia Woolf
#8Mart
#S
ınırlaraHayır
"It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
#BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
#ofdarkandmacabre
"I know not how it was— but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit."
Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher
Art by Damien Worm
#BookWormSat
#gothicspring
#ofdarkandmacabre
"Aidiyet beraberinde mahkûmiyet getirir. Herhangi bir şeye; bir ülkeye, bir fikre, bir dine, bir aileye, en kötüsü de bir insana ait olmak hapiste olmakla eşdeğerdir.”
"Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance at the moment when it attempts to die."
Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero
Art by Elin Manon
#ofdarkandmacabre
"Boşluğun ortasında taştan bir ev. Issızlıkta, tek başına. Evde bir tablo. Pencerelerin arasında. Tabloda yaşlı bir kadın. Öylece ona bakmakta. Yüzlerce kez, içinde kar taneleri olan bir kaleydoskobun içinde dönüp duran bir ruh..." Otopsi'den.
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
Virginia Woolf
#istanbuls
özleşmesiyaşatır
#The
İstanbulConvention
#WomenSupportingWomen
"Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair."
Angela Carter
Art by Roberto Santo, Wing of Desire
#bookwormsat
#ofdarkandmacabre
"İçinden bedenine teşekkür etti. Zaten ona göre vücut, ruhun taşıyıcısıydı sadece, ne yaparsa yapsın ruhu öldüremezdi. Fakat ruh parçalara ayrılıp çoğalarak, başka benliklerde ve farklı şekillerde bedeni ölmekten beter edebilirdi." Otopsi
Green was the forest drenched
with shadows
the roads were serpentine
The moon darkened at dawn
there was a breeze to
witness the hour
- Etel Adnan
#bookwormsat
#ofdarkandmacabre
Art by John Atkinson Grimshaw
"Sinister flowers that seem to bear the incense of some unknown religion." Baudelaire
"From my rotting body flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity." Munch
"I must have flowers, always, and always." Monet
#gothicspring
#ofdarkandmacabre
"Sanıyorum kanıtladığım bir şey var, hiçbir zaman 'memnun etmek' için yazmayacağım, birilerini kazanmak için; ben tamamen ve sonsuza dek kendi kendimin efendisiyim." Tanrıça Woolf
"The wolves had tended her because they knew she was an imperfect wolf; we secluded her in animal privacy out of fear of her imperfection because it showed us what we might have been."
Angela Carter, Wolf-Alice
#bookwormsat
#ofdarkandmacabre
#bookchatweekly
🎨Stephen Mackey
Three Things to Remember
As long as you're dancing, you can
break the rules.
Sometimes breaking the rules is just
extending the rules.
Sometimes there are no rules.
Mary Oliver 💫
#ofdarkandmacabre
#gothicspring
"I feel I am lost.
Equivalent to dead.
It is terrifying.
I no longer feel like making the effort.
I think of no one.
The rest is over.
You as well.
I am alone."
Marguerite Duras
#BookWormSat
#gothicspring
"The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers."
Angela Carter 🖤
#BookWormSat
🎨 The Queen of the Mandrills, Leonora Carrington, 1959
"Çünkü kadın ruhuna ihanet etti. Onu yok saydı, umursamadı. Katlanmak zorunda olduğu insanlardan, hapishaneye dönen evlerden, zorunlu işlerden, banka hesaplarından, çocuk ağlamalarından, kimliklerden, maskelerden oluşan bir dünya yarattı."
"Do you know what it means to be loved by Death? Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
#bookwormsat
#ofdarkandmacabre
Art by George Roux, Spirite, 1885
Geçen gün, Otopsi'yi okuduktan sonra beyaz yakalı işini bırakıp hep istediği gibi resim yapmaya başlayan bir kadın ulaştı bana, resimlerini yolladı. Tuhaf bir histi ama hayatımın en gurur verici anlarından biriydi de. 💜
Look at the birds. Even flying
is born
out of nothing. The first sky
is inside you, open
at either end of day.
The work of wings
was always freedom, fastening
one heart to every falling thing.
~ Li-Young Lee, One Heart
🎨 Andrea Kowch
#ofdarkandmacabre
#bookologythursday
I find I cannot exist without poetry.
—John Keats
Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
—Anne Sexton
Whenever I get lost, they find me in a poem. Poetry is my four directions.
—Dunya Mikhail
I don’t want to be a poet, I want to be poetry.
—C.A. Conrad
"His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat."
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 🖤
#ofdarkandmacabre
Art by Stephen Mackey
Poetry gave me wings. I believe that I've found myselves in the poetry's magical climate. The images, figures of speech, rhythm, form and style, and the aesthetic beauty with all the enchanted words... Poems captivate me so deep that I cannot live without poetry. Not anymore.
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
#ofdarkandmacabre
Art by Bill Mayer