Feyyaz Ed (2 results)

Daab Gmbp, Köln 2006. 400 pages. Richly illustrated in colour. Orig. illustrated boards. Near fine- with spine slightly sunned.

Brossura. Condition: quasi ottimo. prima edizione. RARITY CONCERNING ENGLISH SURREALIST POETRY. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies. 22x14cm, pp. 11, [1]. Paper wrappers illustrated by Edith Rimmington (front) and John Banting (rear). Fifteen poems by various authors in English and French, a list of suggested readings follows the text. Creased vertically through the middle. A very good copy. Feyyaz Kayacan Fergar (1919 - 1993) was born in Istanbul from an Armenian family. In 1940, he moved to England in order to study at King's College in Newcastle upon Tyne. He moved to London soon after finishing his studies and came in contact with the circle of emigrated Surrealist poets led by E. L. T. Mesens and Toni del Renzio. A collection of his early surrealist poems in French (Gestes à la mer, 1943) was positively reviewed and allowed him to fund the publication of two literary magazines: Fulcrum (1944) and Dint (1944; 1945). He was also a writer of short stories (Shelter, 1945) and a Turkish-English translator. He became head of BBC's Turkish Section, 1974 1979. Fulcrum included works of authors like Mesens, Simon Watson Taylor and Jacques Brunius, however it was not just a Surrealist magazine. In fact, it featured poems by New Apocalyptic poets as well - such as Henry Treece, John Atkins and James Kirkup - who reacted to the mainstream 'political realism' of the 1930s. The illustrations on the covers were the work of two eminent artists of the London Surrealist Group: Edith Remmington and John Banting. Jackaman, R. The Course of English Surrealist Poetry since 1930 (1989), p. 137; Levy, S.; Conroy, M. The Scandalous Eye (2003), p. 73; Remy, M. Surrealism in Britain (2019), p. 1977.…