Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi

Öz

In Turkish literature, the influence of newspapers on literary activities and publications has reduced with the Republican period, especially since the 1950s, while journals have come to the fore. Within this sense, literary journals have become the centre of literary, artistic and cultural activities since the 1950s. Kökler, which is the subject of the study and started to be published in the 80th anniversary of the Republic, is an Ankara-centred literary magazine that was published for 12 issues at quarterly intervals between 2003-2006. The magazine draws attention with its sensitivity to poetry and intensive coverage of poetry-related articles since its first issue. The fact that the publishers of the journal are poets and poetry critics has an important effect on this. This study examines the poetry and poet files prepared specifically for the prominent poetry genre in the magazine. Before proceeding to the analysis, the importance of periodicals has been mentioned, followed by information on the imprint, format and technical features, publication principles, poet and writer staff of the journal. Afterwards, the journal's view and approach to poetry and poetry criticism are discussed; the contributions of these articles to Turkish poetry and poetry criticism are discussed by analysing the articles in the poetry and poet files prepared during the period of publication. The journal Kökler, which started to be published in the 80th year of the Republic and played a crucial role in the world of literature despite its short publication lifespan, has been criticised for its file topics on poetry and poetry criticism.