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€1246 raised! Thank you to everyone who donated in support of AHBAP in Turkey and The White Helmets in Syria.
Thank you for being a part of Love Poems for Places. This fundraising campaign came about because of my Turkish family (BUPS '06 for life), and in particular my best friend Melissa Clissold in Istanbul
Photo of me and my friends in high school, sitting in the school field at lunch. BUPS, Ankara, Turkey. Photo by Aylin Yardımcı.
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I wanted to create a campaign that wouldn't portray Turkish and Syrian residents as the 'other' but as people who live familiar lives. They meet their partners on nights out, honeymoon on beaches, eat together on Sunday afternoons with family, dance with friends. Their lives are parallel to ours. They are our peers, our equals, our friends, and need us to keep shouting about this. Not a single person connected to Turkey and Syria has been immune to this disaster, with many family and friend deaths amongst the people I know. So please keep donating and supporting.
Thank you again for the generosity of your donations, but also for the generosity of your memories. They are extremely precious and thank you for trusting me with them. I hope I could do them justice. |
The Poems
A note about these 41 poems. I wrote them in 7 days, and they are hasty, rough, and totally unedited! They are here in the order that I wrote them. So this PDF is more of a document of the week, and definitely not a full publication (my actual collection is taking me years). Also writing is a job and poems certainly don't cost €10 to commission! Match in the Dark has a payment guide for literature, please refer to that if you ever want to work with/commission writers.
If you download the poems, please donate to one of the organisations below or to another earthquake relief campaign, if you haven't already.
If you download the poems, please donate to one of the organisations below or to another earthquake relief campaign, if you haven't already.
