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'In A little book of unspoken history, Elif Sezen navigates physical and metaphysical spheres, conjuring multilayered historical and imaginative narratives.
'Memories of domestic disruption act as a point of departure in these poems, with the poet traveling through time, greeting souls in existential landscapes, illuminating extremity in inner and outer worlds, pivoting between vulnerability and strength, the sayable and the unsayable.
'Sezen’s language charts an ethereal personal odyssey. Her constant metaphors of remembering and forgetting unfold as an existential mystical journey linking biographical and imaginative tellings.' (Publication summary)
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Jennifer Mackenzie Reviews Elif Sezen’s A Little Book of Unspoken History
2019
single work
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 August no. 92 2019;
— Review of A Little Book of Unspoken History 2018 selected work poetry'In these times many of us from all corners of the globe have more than one place we call home. Concepts of nationality, attachment to place, a sudden annunciation of enlightened belonging or steadfast refusal of it can be dissociative, painful and conversely full of artistic promise. The very notion of home may be welcome or fraught with regret. It may involve mixed emotions or at worst, trauma.' (Introduction)
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Jennifer Mackenzie Reviews Elif Sezen’s A Little Book of Unspoken History
2019
single work
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 August no. 92 2019;
— Review of A Little Book of Unspoken History 2018 selected work poetry'In these times many of us from all corners of the globe have more than one place we call home. Concepts of nationality, attachment to place, a sudden annunciation of enlightened belonging or steadfast refusal of it can be dissociative, painful and conversely full of artistic promise. The very notion of home may be welcome or fraught with regret. It may involve mixed emotions or at worst, trauma.' (Introduction)
