Poems from Instant Messaging by Berkay Tuncay

Publisher: SANATORIUM, Istanbul, 2020 

Format: Softcover, 130 × 180 mm 

Pages: 35 

Poems from Instant Messaging transforms the compressed language of online communication into a system of experimental poetry. Berkay Tuncay expands familiar internet acronyms into unexpected textual constructions, arranging them alphabetically in the format of an instant messaging dictionary. Situated between conceptual writing, found poetry, and internet culture, the publication examines how digital shorthand reshapes language, meaning, and reading habits. Published by SANATORIUM, the book marks an early and significant chapter in Tuncay’s ongoing research into the poetic potential of networked communication—an inquiry that later evolved through works such as Poems From Relaxation Videos and Poems From Descriptive Noise.