International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (IPNHK) is an award-winning
biennial poetry festival established by the renowned contemporary
Chinese poet Bei Dao. Since its debut in 2009, IPNHK has become the most
influential series of international poetry events in sinophone areas,
delivered internationally acclaimed poets' thoughts and ideas about
poetry to contemporary China, and stimulated Chinese poets' reflection
upon their own conditions of reading world poetry. Following the
enormous success of previous editions, IPNHK's 2017 event is scheduled
to happen from 22-26 November in Hong Kong, with the theme "Ancient
Enmity," and invites more than twenty poets and lyricists from different
parts of the world to share and read their works in the hope of
encouraging exchange among poets and lyricists.
Poets include Gabeba Baderoon (South Africa), Javier Bello (Chile), Chen
Dongdong (China), Jérôme Game (France), Major Jackson (U.S.), George
Szirtes (UK), Anja Utler (Germany), Haris Vlavianos (Greece), and
others. The IPNHK anthology includes selections of the most
internationally acclaimed contemporary poetry by the invited poets,
accompanied by unique Chinese and English translations in bilingual or
trilingual formats.