George Messo
George Messo is an expatriate English poet and translator who was born in rural Lincolnshire, near the town of Barton-Upon-Humber. He moved to Trabzon, Turkey, in 1998 and has since lived in Oman and Saudi Arabia. He was the editor of Near East Review from 2001 to 2007. Messo is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Poetry
Messo's poetry collections are From the Pine Observatory, Entrances, Hearing Still,''Violades & Appledown and The Invention of Lars Ruth. He appeared in the 2006 Stride anthology, The Allotment: New Lyric Poets, edited by Andy Brown, and the 2015 Bloodaxe anthology Lifesaving Poems edited by Anthony Wilson.The Economist'' has associated Messo with the so-called Istanbul School, which includes the English poet and travel writer John Ash.