PUBLISHED BOOKS
Göçeğen (The Wanderer)
Göçeğen (The Wanderer) is a poetic journey shaped around memory, displacement, belonging, and inner exile. In this collection, Deniz Dağdelen Düzgün suggests that human beings migrate not only across geographies, but also through languages, memories, losses, and the hidden chambers of the self.
Recipient of the 2025 Ali Rıza Ertan Poetry Award, Göçeğen brings together a Mediterranean sensibility, urban consciousness, and the fragile architecture of personal memory in a language that is both restrained and intense. The book weaves existential contradictions into the very texture of poetry, transforming them from abstract concerns into an experience felt within a third literary dimension.
In this book, Düzgün follows the quiet traces left by movement and rupture, inviting the reader into a deeply personal yet collective search for place.
Le Dactylo Méditerranéen (The Mediterranean Typewriter - Anthology)
Le Dactylo Méditerranéen Anthology is a bilingual French-Turkish poetry collection prepared by Deniz Dağdelen Düzgün as translator and editor, bringing together the work of 33 contemporary French poets. Many of these poets appear in Turkish translation for the first time, offering Turkish readers access to a wide range of voices, sensibilities, and poetic approaches shaping contemporary French poetry today.
Rather than presenting French poetry as a single tradition, the anthology reveals its diversity: different aesthetics, linguistic tensions, and distinct poetic visions are brought into dialogue. Through this work, Düzgün approaches translation not merely as the transfer of meaning from one language to another, but as a refined and enduring artistic bridge between cultures.
Le Dactylo Méditerranéen Anthology opens a careful, dedicated, and highly considered space of encounter between French and Turkish poetry, making a meaningful contribution to the circulation of contemporary literature across languages.
Serez'in Bin Yıllık Arısı
(The Millennial Bee of Serez)
Serez’in Bin Yıllık Arısı (The Millennial Bee of Serez) is a poetry collection in which Deniz Dağdelen Düzgün explores the shadow that social wounds cast upon the individual, while also tracing the light that finds a home within that shadow. The title poem received the 2019 Yaşar Kemal Poetry Award.
The book approaches birth not only as a beginning, but also as the first threshold of exhaustion. Yet this exhaustion is not a closed darkness or a final end; it suggests that every form of depletion contains the possibility of a new birth, and that every rupture may carry another form of existence within it.
Serez’in Bin Yıllık Arısı (The Millennial Bee of Serez) brings together personal memory and social weight, loss and resilience, darkness and light. In this collection, Düzgün treats contradictions not merely as oppositions, but as creative tensions through which poetry opens new fields of meaning.
Mavi Çelişki (The Blue Contradiction)
Mavi Çelişki (The Blue Contradiction) is Deniz Dağdelen Düzgün’s first poetry collection, published in 2015.
Bringing together poems previously published in literary journals, the book reveals an essential poetic current that would continue to shape his later work: contradiction.
The concept that gives the book its title is not merely a theme, but the structural backbone of the poems. Blue Contradiction can be read as the inner poetic journey of a young poet who signs a contract with life only to break it at the same time, searching for his own voice among the oppositions of existence.
Written by the poet at the age of 24, the book knots contradictions together as a way of pruning his own path and opening new passages within poetry.
Mavi Çelişki (The Blue Contradiction) stands as a foundational work, carrying the early traces of memory, rupture, inner exile, and existential tension that would deepen throughout Düzgün’s later books.