The Sea Within

In just two short books Gonca Özmen's startling and arresting poems have earned her an unprecedented reputation in Turkey. Her mysterious dream-like imagery and her fresh restless approach to language mark her as a poet of rare ambition and intelligence. In poems whose power to mourn and remember love to celebrate and reinvent the sensuous appetites of the body enacts a subtle exacting beauty Özmen's is a voice and spirit to be welcomed.With poems from all of Gonca Özmen's published work The Sea Within introduces us to one of Turkey's most significant young poets.