The Poem That Lost Its Way in The Digital Age: The Poetic Universe in Hakan Şarkdemir’s Book “Kul Hakkı Kulak Arkası

Any event developing in social life is reflected on art from various perspectives. The effects ofwars, outbreaks, scientific and technological developments on the society are observed to cause somechanges on the face of art in time. The fact that digitalization affects more and more people today generatesnew life forms. Internet, smart phones and the use of social media, which has become widespread in relationto these have virtually led to a new society and a new form of human being. Today, some poets have beenwriting poems focusing on the turning points that digitalization has caused on human existence. These poetsboth draw attention to the state that the individual is drawn to in the grip of digitalization and develop a newdiscourse by benefiting from the opportunities of digitalization. Hakan Şarkdemir, one of these poets,addresses the distresses of consumption society, the isolation and introversion of the individual withexperimental initiatives in the books he has written as of the end of 1990s. In his book entitled “kul hakkıkulak arkası” published in 2011, he benefits from visual experience as much as possible as he addresses thedistresses caused by digitalization. The book involving characteristics being in compliance with postmodernart aesthetics such as parody, semantic gaps, experimentality and visuality has the identity of being a poetictext aimed at the art of poem, the semantic value of which has degraded in our age. The alienation of thesubject poet, the abandonment of the language’s task of reflection, seeking new description opportunities andthe relationship established between the word and the visuals are the poetic elements discussed in the book“kul hakkı kulak arkası”. The aim of this study is to examine the poetic universe of Hakan Şarkdemir’s book“kul hakkı kulak arkası”