from sweating pumice stone, everything shapes this till we are left with the silence that surrounds Beethoven’s head. ----Endings, Derek Walcott #IPNHK #HKPFF #DerekWalcott #BeiDao #Poets #Poems

To see no more in your eyes Than what I think of you And a world in your image And days and nights ruled by your eyelids. ----I Only Wish To Love You, Paul Éluard, translated from French by A. S. Kline #IPNHK #HKPFF @PaulÉluard #BeiDao #Poets #Poems

but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt. ----Don’t Come To Me With The Entire Truth, Olav H. Hauge, translated from Norwegian by Robert Bly #IPNHK #HKPFF #OlavHHauge #BeiDao #Poets #Poems

Their music is immense Each note hundreds of years long Each whole tune a moon-age So they sing to each other unending songs As unmoving they move their immovable masses Their eyes closed ecstatic ----Moon-Whales, Ted Hughes #IPNHK #HKPFF #TedHughes #BeiDao #Poets #POEMS

A nation of birds will be on the other side if you finally embark on being that migrant. ——Yolanda Castaño, Suspended More poet previews will be released soon, stay tuned! For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #YolandaCastaño

In the pitch-black night I met a giant who went by the name Life I drew my gun and shot it dead made the headlines ——Yu Fan, No Such Person: The Killer For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #BUOY #IPNHK2025 #POEMS

What else can grief see? Saturn perhaps. Nine years later, a hand appears to adjust the clock, the hour of Little Boy. ──Don Mee Choi, Mirror Nation For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

But some come to the opposite conclusion do you think this view is right? Winter may be summer Lu Xun might be Lin Yutang ──Bai Hua, Reality For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

One breath as short as a syllable and we’ll touch the sky. I said yes to the Holy Ghost of Life. ──Aura Christi, Porfiry Petrovitch’s Lesson For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

Between the content, abstract and keywords History is an essay about life and death. ──Lidija Dimkovska, History For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

already yearning for older tales: Under the winds, above the waves, let hammer’s rhythm strike again. ──Wolfgang Kubin, The Small Awakening or To an Absentee For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

Only in the morning with the shrieking of the birds our thoughts manage to recapture the world. ──Senadin Musabegovic, The Trace of a Woman’s Hair Across My Face For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

surmounting time, progressing alone so that they and darkness treat each other like guests ──Liang Xiaoming, Whether I Want it or Not For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

asia… a place for reading which is forbidden to be read, a place for writing which is not allowed to be written. ──Afrizal Malna, Asia Reads For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

I think I understand power I am become a hand in a cooperative glove I will be the reminder of the war ──Collier Nogues, Security For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

and when I embraced you summer was over from the suburbs of the gushing night to the city the mundane resumed ──Kiwao Nomura, (and when I embraced you) For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

Come then, rain, drench me. Come, life’s gleeful extortion. Tell me: on which day does farewell arrive? ──Si Rongyun, Repair For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

I want you to believe that this moment will never disappear the moment of love at first sight is a life sentence ──Wang Xiaolong, Eternal Moment For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

one day, we will turn into each other’s poems. Someone we must trust unconditionally, who wracks their brains for us. ──Zhou Yu, Conceptualizing For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025 #BUOY #POEMS

【IPNHK 2025 | Buoy】 Fifteen poets will read their works surrounding the theme “Buoy” through a variety of public cultural activities. Join us to celebrate poetry, arts, and ideas. For more information about IPNHK 2025, please visit ipnhk.org. #IPNHK2025