Prinzenbad by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, translated by Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi Grace Nichols for the rituals of manhood

for the rituals of manhood

traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a 'mongrel'

The Poetry Pharmacy series compiled by Deborah Alma is the perfect prescription for life’s ailments

continues his essential investigation into language

Prinzenbad by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, translated by Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi Grace Nichols for the rituals of manhoodPrinzenbad by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkl, translated by zgecan Kesici Ayoubi, is a formally dexterous, politically charged collection that blends lyric, prose, and autofictional modes to interrogate identity, surveillance, migration, and desire. Drawing on Islamic, diasporic, queer, and pop cultural reference points, the poems enact a poetics of refusal and reclamation, at once intimate and defiant. Keskinkl's language is inventive and polyglot, weaving