Inspiration for an author

How about a coffee shop as a place to get your inspiration? Poet Richard McKane often chases his muse in a coffee shop. Anywhere in the world ... Istanbul, London ... the atmosphere is the same.

For Richard McKane, the coffeehouse holds a special magic. In the coffeehouse, he says, the poet and the reader need not be alone. A good conversation in a coffeehouse, for him, lays itself in the memory like a good poem. He sees a coffeehouse as a place to feel safe and warm in winter and to spill out onto the street in summer.

To read my review of his book Coffeehouse Poems in today's Sunday Zaman newspaper click here:

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=...