Exile Sandra McPherson and poetry as a political

and poetry as a political paradigm

conversational tone

These ideas have been the guiding principles behind the poems collected in this volume

travel articles and translations into Turkish have been published in a variety of journals and newspaper supplements

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Exile Sandra McPherson and poetry as a politicalExile is a collection of short stories with the taste of a novel. The over riding theme is the sense of melancholy of those who have been alienated from their homeland, from their families or from society. By offering the reader short, vivid glimpses into other worlds; be they of real or fictional characters, Ilhan builds a patchwork of stories which highlight the lives of the dispossessed. As a woman writing in modern day Turkey, she is not afraid to