Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, WORDS & THE WORLD is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. Included are the poems of Tanikawa Shuntar o (Japan), Paul Muldoon (Ireland), Tomaž Šalamun (Slovenia), Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Russia), C. D. Wright (USA), Maria Baranda (Mexico), Regis Bonvicino (Brazil), Silke Scheuermann (Germany), Bejan Matur (Turkey), Vivek Narayanan (India) as well as leading Chinese poets such as Xi Chuan, Yu Jian, Yu Xiang, Ling Yu, Chen Ko Hua, Lo Chih Cheng, Tian Yuan, Yao Feng, Wong Leung Wo and Yip Fai. The collection makes a treasured anthology of the finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation. Edited by Gilbert Fong, Shelby Chan, Lucas Klein, and Bei Dao, WORDS & THE WORLD twenty-volume set is an extended edition of the single-volume WORDS & THE WORLD. It comprises twenty pocket off-prints encased in a fine paper box, each containing more selected works by one of the internationally renowned poets included in the single volume, accompanied by English and/or Chinese translations. The goal of The World of Words collection is to disseminate and make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry through high quality translations by outstanding translators. Each of the twenty volumes can be purchased separately.