POETRY

Lyricist, Poet Suna Hezer was born in 1956 in the İskenderun district of Hatay. Hezer completed her primary, secondary and high school education there. She became interested in music in her childhood. She started writing poems in free verse during her middle school years. She published her poetry book “𝘎𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘤𝘣𝘶𝘳 𝘖𝘭𝘮𝘢” in 1997. After a while, she started writing free verse. She realized the idea of becoming a writer. As a result of her years of work, the poems she wrote attracted attention and were composed by many valuable composers in the field of Turkish Classical Music. Hezer’s first poem “𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘎ö𝘯𝘭ü𝘮𝘦 𝘒𝘢ş Ç𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘢 İ𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘮”was composed by Mustafa Coşkun in the Kürdilihicazkâr Makam and became the first poem to enter the TRT repertoire with the number 23494. This piece was performed by Zeki Topçuoğlu, one of the artists of TRT Ankara Radio. In addition, one of the poems composed by composer Ahmet Sedat Mete, “𝘠𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳ı𝘮𝘢 𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘎ü𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘋ö𝘬𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘕𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘺𝘥𝘢”, a joint piece in Nihavent Makam, became his second piece in the TRT repertoire with the number 24666. Suna Hezer worked in different units in İskenderun Municipality. She retired from her job as a wedding officer in 1997 at the age of 39. After her retirement, she started working life and opened a textile store in Mersin. She is the mother of two boys.