Fog Bells: 8 Contemporary Turkish Poets, trans. Neil P. Doherty A Herring Famine Over all haunts the presence-in-absence

Over all haunts the presence-in-absence of Sylvia Plath

"Written like an ecopoetic response to the Victorian memento mori: Spittle is reminding us that we must only be willing to look

reveals the poet’s flair for re-imagining and feminising historical texts

The teasing title poem of this book is about weather

Fog Bells: 8 Contemporary Turkish Poets, trans. Neil P. Doherty A Herring Famine Over all haunts the presence-in-absencePublished October 2025. This groundbreaking bilingual anthology, translated and introduced by Neil P. Doherty, presents a generous selection of the work of eight of its most distinguished living practitioners to provide an insight into the depth and richness of contemporary poetry in the Turkish language, still so little known in the West. "These fog bells, which were first sounded at one edge of the European land mass, are now ringing out at its