The Best Poems of the Year by Chinese Poets & Writers of the World 2025

This book brings together the works of Chinese poets and writers from around the world. Through poetry, it responds to life and holds feeling, collectively mapping the emotional landscape of the contemporary Chinese experience-allowing language to become a vessel for the heart and soul.

As an annual poetry selection, the anthology is published in separate Chinese and English editions, seeking to introduce Chinese poetry to a wider global audience, where it can be seen, understood, and meaningfully responded to.

--Weiguo Zhang

Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

The Best Poems of the Year by Chinese Poets & Writers of the World 2025 brings together diverse and distinctive poetic voices, showcasing profound emotion and insight, and serving as a bridge for cross-cultural understanding and empathy.

This series offers a yearly banquet of verses to stir hearts and stimulate minds. This collection presents valuable insights into the international breadth of contemporary Chinese poetry.

--Charlie Smith

Veteran Canadian Media Professional & Editor

Our annual anthology is not merely a record, but an active attempt to engage in the dialogue and shaping of world poetry. Wherever we may be, we respond to the world through the language of poetry. This volume seeks to document the current landscape of global Chinese-language poetry, bringing together and presenting the complexity and creative vitality of contemporary Chinese-language writing. What it aims to establish are the annual rings and historical markers of poetic literature: it is not only a collection of poems, but an evolving "literary archive of its time."

The works in this volume reflect three distinct yet interconnected creative energies:

1. Grand Narratives: war, migration, identity, linguistic rupture, the shadows of history...

2. Poetics of the Everyday: a philosophy of life

3. Transcultural Writing

--Cathy Xinman

Editor-in-Chief

Top-tier libraries have collected the Chinese edition, which has been indexed through globally acclaimed library and bibliographic platforms. This stands as a testament to the anthology's reach and cultural relevance.

Author: Cathy Xinman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Canadian North America Writers Press Inc.
Published: 07/27/2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781738015818