World Poetry Almanac 2008
Edited by Hadaa Sendoo, Mongolia
One might wonder why we, halfway 2009, still recommend a book entitled almanac 2008
I met the Mongolian poet Hadaa Sendoo, editor of the book, many years ago at an international poetry festival in Bratislava and again at the World Congress of Poets in Mongolia three years ago.
Last year he asked me to send a few poems for “an almanac”. Recommended by the fine Austrian poet Manfred Chobot, I did so.
As promised the poet-editor sent me a few months ago a copy of the book.
Amazing! I still wonder how a poet from a since Genghis Khan forgotten country is able to collect and translate into decent English poetry not only by the world’s best known poets, such as Szymborska, Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, Antjie Krog, Derek Walcott, Adonis, Dannie Abse, Robert Bly, Tranströmer, but also from excellent poets from Afghanistan, Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Malaysia, Malta, Nepal, Palestine, Senegal, South Africa, Turkey, Zimbabwe etc.
A 262 pages book with excellent “World Poetry” and information on several international poetry festivals, published by World Poetry Almanac, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
E-mail:
poetry_almanac@yahoo.com. Price: 50€ or 60$
Passing by Vienna at dusk
The Danube twisted and turned
I had the illusion of hugging you
Then everything was impossible
I read Rilke while all was silent
And expected the entangled dream
To be solved by old Sigmund
Night’s curtain fell
The serenade by Schubert reverberated
The beautiful Alps were dimly seen
For a taxicab was waiting in Bratislava
But I really wanted to kiss
Your blue starlit night.
Hadaa Sendoo, Mongolia, 2009
The Face of Chinese poetry (1)
A 338 pages beautifully published book with pictures of all the poets,
short biography in English, of each poet a poem, in Chinese only
The Chinese Culture Press, 2007
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