English poet and translator Richard McKane (1947) had begin writing poems in 1967, influenced especially by his impressions of Turkey: in his words, "Turkey became the cradle of my poems." He has translated major Turkish poets for anthologies like the Penguin Book of Turkish Verse and Modern Turkish Poetry. Coffeehouse Poems / Kahvehane Şiirleri is a special selection from Richard McKane´s poems written between 1998-2003: "The poems in this book are united by the fact that, with a very few exceptions, they