. Serkon Paulus On this day in 2007, October 22, an Iraqi poet who made a name for himself in Arabic literature passed away and is regarded as one of the most significant exponents of the prose poem’s modern form.
At the age of thirteen, Serkon Paulus moved to Kirkuk with his family. There, he started composing poetry and founded the Kirkuk group with the poets Fadel Al-Azzawi, Muayyad Al-Rawi, Jean Damo, and Salah Faeq.
Some of Youssef Al-poetry Khal’s were published in the “Poetry” magazine in 1961. He travelled on foot over the desert to Beirut in 1966.
In Beirut, Serkon Paulus, on the translation, in 1969, he left for the United States of America, and in San Francisco the “Petynix” group, such as Allen -Guinsburg, Crok, Gregory Corso, Bob Kaufin, Lawrence Verlingy, Gary Snyder, and holds friendships with them.
Serkon Paulus made a significant contribution to the Arab Library by providing accurate and significant translations of several poets that were printed in Arabic periodicals like Poetry Magazine, Al-Mawaqaf Magazine, and Carmel Magazine. He spent his final years travelling back and forth between Europe and America, spending a lot of time in Germany where he received multiple grants for creative works. He battled cancer for years before passing away in Berlin early on October 22, 2007.
His debut publication, “Reaching the City of Where,” was launched in 1985. His subsequent works included “Life Near the Akopool,” “First and Next,” “The Lanning Holder in the Night of Wolves,” and “If You Are Sleeping in the Noah Boat.”
He also published several other works, including a translation of Itil Adnan’s “There is in light and the darkness of the soul and the other” in 2000, “Specks of the Spirit of the Universe,” a poetic selection translated into German, “Witnesses on the Banks,” “A deserted room,” an anecdotal anthology published in Arabic and German, “Other Greatness of the Tribal Dog,” and others.
15 years after Sarkon Paulus, one of the Kirkuk Poetry Group’s founders, left the organisation
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