World Poetry Anthology / Edited by Hassanal Abdullah
The World Poetry Anthology, celebrates the 25th anniversary of Shabdaguccha, an international bilingual poetry magazine edited by Hassanal Abdullah. All poems published here previously appeared in Shabdaguccha from 1998 to 2023.
This volume presents poets like Pablo Neruda, Jibanananda Das, Stanley Kunitz, Adonis, Louise Glück, Jayanta Mahapatra, Bengt O Björklund, Kazimierz Burnat, Manfred Chobot, John Kinsella, Dariusz Tomasz Lebioda, Amir Or, Shamsur Rahman, Serge Pey, Nat Scammacca, and many more from fifty-nine countries.
Hassanal Abdullah’s vision of world poetry . . . strives not just for an inclusive global reach but for a sense of poetry as a habit of life, a habit which can disclose both entail complexity and depth of feeling. Abdullah has provided a poetic matrix in which readers can always be surprised, and in which the most gratifying satisfaction will always necessarily yield to something new and something more surprising.
—Prof. Nicholas Birns, Department of English, New York University
This anthology provides contributing poets the opportunity to see each other as members of a literary community. We are all, quite literally, “in this together.” Perhaps it will inspire authors to communicate with each other and with the broader audience more freely. I hope everyone will read the anthology with a sense of urgency, particularly reflecting on how poets have contributed their ideas and passions to the shaping of a complex and tense new age in which a global perspective is our only home for survival.
—Prof. Joan Digby, Professor Emeritus, English Department, Long Island University.
