Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, the second edition of the Abu Dhabi Poetry Festival will commence tomorrow, Monday.
Organised by the Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority, the festival will run until 11th February at ADNEC Centre
The year 2025 was rich in movement, travel, and multi-directional cultural work—a year in which geography intersected with creativity, and personal experience converged with public cultural action, grounded in a firm belief in the role of the word, art, and knowledge in building bridges among peoples.
Major Journeys of the Year:
A Poem by Blerina Pëllumbi, an Albanian poetess based in Paris
Angels embrace silently, smiling,
In a mad world that gives wings to noise,
Where life’s truths are born and lost,
Where they start to sing – and start to weep…
Blerina Pëllumbi, born in the beautiful city of Korçë, Albania,
A Poem by Madaminova Ogiloy, a young poetess from Republic of Uzbekistan
A house with a woman radiates light,
A house without a woman is not welcoming.
So appreciate a woman,
Love a woman and surrender!
Madaminova Ogiloy, born in 2002 in Koshkopir district Khorezm region Republic of Uzbekistan, is 3rd stage student of Jizzakh
In the silence, he seems to hear
a roar rising from the depths of the stone…
Ma Peisong is Director of the China Poetry Society
Ma Peisong, a Chinese poet born in the 1960s, currently resides in Mianyang. He is a member of the China Writers Association, a director of the China Poetry Society, as well as a member of the
