George Messo
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Shearsman Titles
Entrances
About the author
George Messo is a poet, translator and editor. He divides his time between Ankara and Saudi Arabia, where he teaches English. He is also editor of the international literary journal The Near East Review. He is a prolific translator from and into Turkish and his first book in Turkish, Aradaki Ses (The In-Between Voice), appeared in 2005. His first collection in English, From the Pine Observatory, appeared from Halfacrown Press in 2000, with a second edition from Near East Review Books a year later. His second is Entrances, from Shearsman. His edition of the Selected Poems of the Turkish poet Ilhan Berk came out from Salt Publishing in 2007, and his own work was represented in the Stride anthology The Allotment: New Lyric Poets, ed. Andy Brown (2006). A further Ilhan Berk selection is scheduled for 2008 from Shearsman Books