As is Love: Poetry in English

· ALPHAN VARDARLI · Narrated by ALPHAN VARDARLI
Audiobook
39 min
Unabridged

About this audiobook

Then ahoy fertility, ar-ar the meaning of boundless, the propagation of what is chosen from purple, the un-importance of how little the small brilliance is, it’s unique place amongst every billionth of shining, variable; the undying fire in every furnace. Prettier when left alone and moreish...


A waiting into a song

They have been asking for a while

Waiting on shores and by marble pools

A waiting into a song, time and idols

And moments and wet dreams are not to replace those Corinthian pillars

To be holding the sky up and a garden down

We need much education in a now finite world


Alphan Vardarlı is a poet, a researcher and a self-trained painter born in 1978. Graduated from University of Kent at Canterbury from the department of Politics and International Relations in 1999. Went onto study art and art history in Florence, Italy. Attended Philosophy and Cultural Analysis M.A. program in the University of Amsterdam.

As is Love is his second poetry book. Been writing poetry since 15 years old. A collection of his bilingual poetry in Turkish and English entitled “Falling to a Tea House Garden” was published in print in 2017.

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