Ithaca Poetry نظم اتھاکا

By Germain Droogenbroodt, Naila Hina and نائلہ حنا

Ithaca Poetry نظم اتھاکا

Germain Droogenbroodt, Engr Dr Naila Hina 

A bilingual poetry collection

A unique publication of poetry from all over

the world. A project of POetry INTernational called Poetry Without Borders. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Engineer Naila Hina
• Release date: Dec 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223317753

Book preview

Germain Droogenbroodt

Urdu translator

Engr Dr Naila Hina

جرمین ڈروجن بروڈٹ

اردو ترجمہ:

انجینئر ڈاکٹر نائلہ حنا

Preface

A unique publication of poetry from all over

the world

As a poet from a small language area myself, I soon experienced

how important translations are. That is why, in 1984, I founded POINT

(POetry INTernational), publishing modern international poetry, to do

something, however little, for a more human society by translating and

publishing poetry from all over the world. POINT published more than

80 collections of modern international poetry.

Having moved to Spain, the editor of a magazine asked me to offer

every week a nice poem from all over the world with corresponding

illustration: Poetry without Borders, originally named The Poem of the

Week, was born.

Yearly invited at a dozen important international poetry festivals, I

meet important contemporary poets from all over the world, they give

me their poetry books or become translators of the project Poetry without

Borders.

Year after year the project has become more important and is

appreciated worldwide. The poems are meanwhile published in more

than 30 languages, including in Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bangla,

Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German,

Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese,

Kiswahili, Kurdish, Macedonian, Malayan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,

Russian, Sardinian, Serbian, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, Urdu and Tamil.

More than a dozen of international literary magazines and websites

publish the poems. One of them has been read 72.000 times at a Chinese

website.

The Kurdish poet Hussein Habasch who translates the poems in

Kurdish, was the first to publish a book with a large selection of the

poems followed by the Romanian translator Gabriela Câlutiu Sonnenberg

who realized a publication in Romania by Biblioteca Revistei Curtea de

la Arges of the 260 poems I had translated and published before in

Belgium and in Holland. Last year, two more collections of Poetry without

Borders have been published. One in Hindu in India by the poet-

translator Jyotirmaya Thakur and another in Indonesia by poet-translator

Lily Siti Multatiliana Sultanniskandar. The Chilean poet-publisher Luis

Cruz-Villalobos will publish all the so far 770 published poems and

published already a first collection bilingual English-Spanish.

This book contains poems from all over the world. Not only