Poetry at Anwar's Tent

15 poemas presentados al
XV. Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín, Colombia - 24 de junio al 2 de julio del 2005 (15 Poems presented at the International Poetry Festival of Medellín, Colombia - June 24 -July 02, 2005)

Embellecimiento después de mi nacimiento en Ur - colección presentada al IV. Festival Internacional de Poesía - Costa Rica 2005 - 18 al 25 de junio del 2005 (Collection presented at the IV. International Poetry Festival of Costa Rica 2005 - June 18 -25, 2005)

Colección - Tardes de un robot (Afternoons of a Robot) - 2005

8 poemas (del 2003-2004)

Colección - Homenaje a América Latina - 2006

Poemas ticos - 2006

Poemas para Ana Mercedes - 2006

Poems in Arabic - I
Early Poems - First Poems

This section is still empty. I will soon start uploading samples of these poems.
Because I consider 1988 the year when I seriously started to write poetry, I call these poems early or first poems. There are dozens of these poems, all in Arabic. They cover almost twenty years during which I didn´t consider myself a poet but a project of a writer. In hindsight, it seems I was in a transition from shortstory writer to a poet (until then, I identified myself as shortstory writer and had published shortstories). I did not attribute any special importance to these poems. That is why only very few of them were sent to magazines for publication. I suspect there are more of these poems from my Baghdad Period (1962-1968) in the notebooks I left in Iraq. I have no access to those notebooks. I don´t know whether they still exist.
These are poems of variable quality, somehow naive, some are loose and need to be compacted, yet all have an air of originality and freshness. I was more concerned with pouring everything on paper than crafting works of art. I will upload them as they are without changes or "updating".
The two poems from 1964 have some significance: they represent my first poetical "explotion", on the other hand, together with poems by other poets of that period, they went into contemporary history of Iraqi poetry as the first porductions of what was later to be called the Movement of the Sixties.
All in all, these poems represent the sources of my poetry, they are all rebellious, at times simple yet original, written by a person who did not claim to be a poet. These are poems that reflect remarakable years of growth, confusion, radical views, and intensive search and learning, particulary the later Baghdad years 1964-1968 and the first years in Leipzig 1968-1971.

		Vorteile der Wälder - May 16 - 2001				Inge in Weimar - May 29, 2001
		JK - Oct. 4, 2004				Hartmut Nehring - Jan. 29, 2005
		Anti-Gedicht für Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 13 Juni 1996 – 20 Februar 2005				Sammlung - Deutsche Gedichte - 2007