George Messo

George Messo divides his time between Saudi Arabia and Sweden. A poet, editor and teacher, he is also a prominent translator of Turkish poetry. His first collection in English, From the Pine Observatory, appeared in 2000. His subsequent collections are all from Shearsman. His translations of the Turkish poet Ilhan Berk appeared have beeb published in three volumes by Shearsman, alongside his groundbreaking anthology, Ikinci Yeni: The Turkish Avant-Garde (2009) and there Complete Poems of Orhan...See more

George Messo divides his time between Saudi Arabia and Sweden. A poet, editor and teacher, he is also a prominent translator of Turkish poetry. His first collection in English, From the Pine Observatory, appeared in 2000. His subsequent collections are all from Shearsman. His translations of the Turkish poet Ilhan Berk appeared have beeb published in three volumes by Shearsman, alongside his groundbreaking anthology, Ikinci Yeni: The Turkish Avant-Garde (2009) and there Complete Poems of Orhan Veli (2016). See less