The Centre is very proud to have secured the collaboration of Ayþegül Tözeren, a young artist from Turkey. We are very grateful for her generous support of the Centre.

I was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1979. I've graduated from Istanbul Medical Faculty in 2005. In the same year, my first visual poem was published in Zinhar magazine. Since then, my visual poems have taken place in Zinhar Galeri (zinharpost.blogspot.com), which is the only visual and concrete poetry blog in Turkish. Besides, my work has appeared in the third and fourth issue of Otoliths magazine and in nokturno.org with Finnish textual information. Some of visual poems that published in Otoliths were exhibited in Platforma, The Visual Poetry of Asia, exhibition held in December, 2006. My vispos appeared place in the second issue of Monokl (2007) and Yasakmeyve magazine.

Works featured on this site include: "baðýrýyorum" ,"baðýrýyorum" means, "I'm shouting" in English. The last letter "m" gives the meaning of "I"; istifa" ,"istifa" means "resignation", "istif" means "stack" or "hoard"; "kendini aramak" ,"kendini aramak" means "looking for yourself"; "stigmatizasyon", "stigmatizasyon" tranlitarates "stigmatisation" in English; "büyüttüm" ,"büyüttüm" means "I raised"There's an epigraph below the poem: "Entry to the gardens of electricity" Front writing of the poem means "there's no soul anyway, you see.."

Please note that the artist asserts her copyright over the work reproduced here by kind permission.