The Complete Poems of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen: part 2  is the title of the poetry book that has been published by  Difaf Publishing, Beirut, Lebanon 2016 to contain  three collections of the poet in new edition  such as: The Dot 1999, The Letter H 2002, Before the Letter ..After the Dot 2006. Read...

 16 May 2016

certificate of distinguished achievement in poetry and journalism

On Monday 16 May 2016, in the New South Wales Parliament, Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen received a certificate of distinguished achievement in poetry and journalism from Mr Jihad Dih MP: Member for Lakemba and Shadow Minister for Education. And He was awarded an award of excellence and distinguished achievement in poetry from the Association for the Development of the Arabic Poetry in Australia as well.

1- 1 - 2016

In the Mirror of the Letter

“In the Mirror of the Letter” is the title of the poetry collection that has been published for Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen by Difaf Publishing, Beirut, Lebanon in 2016. This collection deals with the favorite subjects of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen such as: Dream, love, Death, Sea and suffering. It contains 50 poems.   ...Read

1 - 1 - 2015 

 Last Dance of the Letter

" Last Dance of the Letter" is the title of the poetry collection that has been published for Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen by Difaf Publishing, Beirut, Lebanon in 2015. This collection deals with the favorite subjects of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen such as: love, suffering, and the meaning of life and death. It contains 19 long poems. Read....

1 - 1 - 2015 

The Complete Poems of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's p1

The Complete Poems of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen: part 1 is the title of the poetry book that has been published by  Difaf Publishing, Beirut, Lebanon 2015 to contain the first fife poetry collections of the poet in new edition  such as: Details 1976, Arabic poetry collection 1981, The letter “J” 1989, The letter “N” 1993, The News of Meaning 1996. readd

1 - 3 - 2014

"The Signs of the Letter A"

"The Signs of the Letter A" is the title of the poetry collection that has been published for Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen by Difaf Publishing, Beirut, Lebanon in 2014. This collection deals with the favorite subjects of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen such as: love, suffering, and the meaning of life and death. It contains 100 poems. The picture of the cover collection was made by the artist Nooraldeen Ameen.

21 - 1 - 2014

"Problem of Absence in Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen’s Poetry" by Sabah Alanbari

"Problem of Absence in Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen’s Poetry" is the new critic book that has been written by the Iraqi-Australian critic and writer Sabah Alanbari. The book deals with the Adeeb kamal Ad-Deen’s poetry collections and his special thoughts about Death and the tragic meaning of Death. It has been published in Beirut, Lebanon 2014 by Difaf Publishing

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22 - 7 - 2013 

"Manifestations of Beauty and Love in Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen’s Poetry" by Dr. Asma Gherib

“"Manifestations of Beauty and Love in Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen’s Poetry"” is the newest critic book has been written by the Moroccan-Italian critic Dr. Asma Gherib. The book deals with the Adeeb kamal Ad-Deen’s 15 poetry collections and his special thoughts about Love and the beauty of Love. The book has been published in Beirut, Lebanon 2013 by Difaf Publishing.      

9 - 3 - 2013

Shakir Hassan Radhi, Former Assistant Professor, College of Languages, University of  Baghdad published an article about Something Wrong In Iraq Literature Interview  (No.3  2013) under the title: Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen from Mesopotamia to Australia: The poet is the poet.. Full article

19 – 2- 2013

The Letter and the Crow

“"The Letter and the Crow “ is the new poetry collection that has been written by Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen and published in Beirut, Lebanon 2013 by Arab Scientific Publishers, Inc. It contains 40 poems.

   The picture of the cover collection was made by the artist Nooraldeen Ameen whereas the artist Sameh Khalaf designed the cover.

12 – 11 - 2012

Dr. Heather Taylor Johnson published an interview about "Something Wrong" in Rochford Street Review magazine on Monday 12 November 2012 .Its title was "A sense of the magical"

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8 - 11 - 2012

Something Wrong  One of The Best Australian Poems 2012  

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poem Something Wrong has been chosen and published as one of The Best Australian Poems 2012 (edited by John Tranter). This anthology contains poems for more than 60 famous Australian poets, such as Peter Rose, Les Murray, Rob Walker, Larry Buttrose and Bruce Dawe.

Something Wrong appeared in his collection Something Wrong (Salmat Press, 2012).

In 2007, as well, Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poem Sleeplessness had been chosen and published as one of The Best Australian Poems 2007 (edited by Peter Rose).

12 – 10 - 2012

The launch of Something Wrong at South  Australian  Writers' Centre

 Dr.Anne-Marie Smith

Dr. Anne-Marie Smith and Dr. Heather Taylor Johnson launched the Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's newest poetry collection  Something Wrong at SA Writers' Centre on Friday, 12 October 2012

Dr. Anne-Marie Smith  read her introduction for this collection and Dr. Heather Taylor Johnson read a review for it

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen read 5 of his poems: Interesting, Strange, Amazing, Magician , The Serpent Tree, Where to, and Something Wrong

The completed launch

 Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen reads 5 of his poems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizdKP7wPNs

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen reads his poem: Something Wrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_wRPYXlfJ4

Something Wrong

1 – 6 - 2012

ISBN: 978-0-646-57253-6

Something Wrong is the title of the new poetry collection that has been  written by Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen and printed by Salmat press in Adelaide,  Australia to contain 40 poems such as: I will kiss you Now, Depths, Drops of Love, Where to, Noah Came and Went, Apology, Alcohol and Blood, Magician. Something Wrong, Will of the Letter, Wishes, And The Serpent Tree.

The Australian writer and critic Dr.  Anne-Marie Smith has written an introduction to this collection, whereas the Cover designed by Sami Mohammad.

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17 – 3 – 2012

Special poetic reading in Holland

On the invitation of Awtan Multicultural Foundation I travelled to Holland. So, in the court of the Hagg University, I read  a lot of my poems  in Arabic and English that  could give  the  Dutch audience  a clear picture about my special  way in writing poetry,  and answer their questions at the end of the lecture .

10 – 3 – 2012

The launch of  poetry collection (Forty Poems about the Letter) in Italy

 On the invitation of the Italian publisher : Claudio Matza, the owner

 of Nuova Ipsa Editore, who published my poetry book: (Forty Poems about the Letter) أربعون قصيدة عن الحرف (Quaranta poesie sulla letter), and the invitation of the translator Asma Gherib, I visited Italy to take part in the launch that was held by the publisher in the city of Palermo, Italy. In this successful launch, I read some of my poems, spoke to the Italian audience about my poetry in general and about this collection in particular, answered their different questions and signed happily many copies of the book at the end of the launch.

At the launch, I was presented by  the Italian writer Vincenzo Prestigiacomo who introduced me to the audience referring to my long experience in writing poetry through 40 years and to 14 poetry books  I have published in Arabic and English.

 I was also participated with the Italian critic: Mario de Moncada Monforth who read his article about my particular style of writing poetry, and the translator Asma Gherib who explained her wonderful experience in translating this poetry collection and read her introduction for (Forty Poems about the Letter).

The Italian poet and actor Vincenzo Pomar also shared to read my poems in Italian language.

Many Italian websites wrote about this event  

and the Italian newspaper: La Sicilia published on Saturday 10 March 2012 an article under the title: (journey to find the sun spirit).

ISBN 978-88-7676-463-9

 15- 10- 2011

(Forty Poems about the Letter) translated into Italian language

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poetry collection: (Forty Poems about the Letter) (Quaranta poesie sulla lettera) has been recently translated into Italian language by the translator and writer Asma Gherib and published by the Italian publisher: Nuova Ipsa Editore.  Whereas the picture of the cover collection made by the artist Ayad Alqaragholli.

 (Forty Poems about the Letter) has been written in Sydney and Adelaide to contain 40 poems about love, dream, exile, and death.

 However, Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poetry was translated into many languages such as Spanish, Persian, Kurdish, German and French.. 

1- 1- 2011

I Say the Letter and I Mean My Fingers

(I Say the Letter and I Mean My Fingers) is the title of the new poetry collection

That has been recently published by (Arab Scientific Publishers, Inc) in Beirut, Lebanon 2011.

This poetry collection has been written by Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen who lives in Australia as an Australian citizen since 2003 to contain forty poems that deal deeply with the subjects of loneliness, death and love such as: Something Wrong, Zorba, Back from the Will, the Palm, a Lot of Pictures, at the Last Airport, the Mirror, Dialogue, The Dance, and Letter, what is your name?

The picture of the cover collection was made by the artist Ayad Alqaragholli whereas the artist Sameh Khalaf designed the cover.

1-    11- 2009

 The Australian writer and critic Anne-Marie Smith published an article about the newest poetry collection of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen in Transnational Literature Volume 2 No 1 November 2009.

 Anne-Marie Smith

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1- 8 - 2009

Forty Poems about the Letter

Azminah publisher in Jordan has recently published the newest poetry collection of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen. Its title is (Forty Poems about the Letter) .This collection has been written in Sydney and Adelaide to contain 40 poems about love, dream, exile, and death. Now, Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen has ten poetry collections in Arabic and one in English.

Fatherhood

1- 5- 2009

     The Australian Publisher Seaview Press Pty Ltd has  published a new collection of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen’ poetry. Its title is “Fatherhood”. It contains 30 poems such as: kelmat, An Attempt to fly, Sleeplessness, Theft, The Crow, Laughter, The Past of Meaning, Dyad, Boredom, An Attempt at Isolation, An Attempt at Eulogy, The Head's Loneliness, Fire and Sinbad, Losses, An Attempt at Madness, The Piper and An Attempt at the Bullet. 

 The Australian writer and poet Jude Aquilina writes an introduction to this collection, “Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poetry: The shades of darkness”. Whereas the Cover photograph has been taken by: Shamsaldin Hama.

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  23 October 2008

    One of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen’s poems has been chosen and published in a new anthology edited by the President of the Multicultural Writers of Australia Association, Dr. Anne-Marie Smith.

    “Fire and Sinbad” is the title of the poem whereas “Culture is…” is the title of the anthology that has printed recently by Wakefield Press in Adelaide.

    About 50 poems, short stories and plays of many Australian poets and writers of all backgrounds has been published in this anthology to present contemporary views about the real and secret life of Australian people.

Sleeplessness One of The Best Australian Poems 2007

5 -11 - 2007

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poem, "Sleeplessness", has recently been published as one of "The Best Australian Poems 2007" (edited by Peter Rose). This anthology contains poems for more than 60 famous Australian poets, such as Les Murray, David Malouf, Peter Porter, Judith Beveridge, Lisa Gorton, Barry Hill, and John Tranter.

Meanjin magazine has published "Sleeplessness" in Vol.66 No.2 in 2007.

Man of Letters

  1- 7- 2007

"Man of Letters: 33 critics write about Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poetry" is the title of the book that has been recently published by Arabic institution publisher in Lebanon. This book edited and introduced by the Iraqi critic Dr. Migdad Rahim  to discusse the poetry of Kamal Ad-Deen.

 Dr. Migdad Rahim chooses about 40 articles and research of 33 famous Arabic critics who deal with and explain Kamal Ad-Deen' poetry such as: Dr. A. Almakaleh, Dr. A. As-Sayah, Dr. A. Muhamed, Dr. Hasen Nadhem, Dr. Nadhem Udah, Dr. Adnan Aldher, Faisel Abdulhasn , Dr. Hatem As-Saker, A. Ar-Rubayi, Saleh Zamel, Dr. Mustafa Alkaylani, Dr. Bushrah Musa Saleh , and Ali Alfwaz.

The Tree of Letters

1- 6 -2007

"The Tree of Letters" is the latest poetry collection that was written by Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen and published by Azminah in Jordan in June 2007.

It contains forty poems that deal with subjects such as Love, Freedom and the conflict between Life and Death through poems; "The Last Visitor", "My Everlasting Poem", 'The Stranger", "Love", "Boy", "Dream", My New Poem", "At That Moment", "The Captain" "The Tree of Snakes", "Stones" and "Interesting, Strange, Wonderful!".  "The Tree of Letters" is the ninth poetry collection that has been written by Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen.

21- 4 -2007

  Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poetry collection (Before the Letter.. After the Dot) became a drama dance and it played on the stage of Babylon Artists in Iraq on 21st of April 2007. Thualfekar Kheder and Maithem Shakeri embodied the two characters of the play: the letter and the dot, whereas Thualfekar Khder and Zuheer Jubury wrote the scenario.

1- 1 - 2007

 Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's biography was published in "Who's Who in South Australia, State Edition 2007". It contained the names of his books, degrees, works and achievements.

Indeed, "Who's Who in South Australia 2007" contained a lot of outstanding Australian people who have notable local, national and global achievements in Poetry, Art, Sport, Science, Business and Education.

16 - 3 -2007

On Friday 16th March 2007, Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen shared in the radio program "Australia Talks" that was broadcast by ABC Radio National with a number of Australian poets, Lauren Williams, Mike Ladd, Paul Barclay, and the Executive Producer of this program, Matthew Leonard. The program subject was "Politics and Poetry". Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen spoke about the importance of the relationship between Politics and Poetry, especially in the developing countries, such as Iraq, and read one of his poems "Boredom".

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7 - 8 - 2007

On the seventh of August 2006 Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen read four of his poems: An Attempt at Madness, The Crow, Fire and Sindabad and Boredom at the Gallery de la Catessen in Adelaide sharing with four Australian poets: Cath Kenneally, Rachel Manning, Kate Deller- evans and Ros Prosser. Adeeb was introduced to the audience by Ken Bolton. This reading was part of "Lee Marvin Readings in Adelaide" for new writing.

1 - 6 - 2006

 Before the letter ...After the Dot

"Before the letter ...After the Dot" is the title of the latest poetry collection that has been published for Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen by Azminsh publisher in Amman- Jordan in July 2006. This collection deals with the favorite subjects of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen such as love, suffering, exile and freedom. It contains 40 poems that have been written since the poet arrived in Australia in 2003.

"Boredom": " Aburrimiento " is the title of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen' poem that has been translated into the Spanish language and published  recently in Buenos Aires in the first anthology of Iraqi poetry in Spanish. The editor is Clase Turista for this anthology that contains poems for Nedhal Abbas,Sinan Antoon, Adnan al-Sayegh and Anwer al-Ghassani as well.

 Featured Poem

Throughout 2005, the editors of Friendly Street Poetry Reader 30, Louise Nicholas and rob walker, will be selecting poems read at a recent Friendly Street meeting for posting on the website.

The current Featured Poem is Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's "An Attempt at The Bullet" which was read at the SA Writers' Centre on 7th December 2004.

To read previous Featured Poems visit the Featured Poem Archive.

An Attempt at The Bullet

I had a heart

When I grew up

My heart turned into a sparrow

Then into a flower,

A word,

A tear,

A piece of bread.

When I became older

My heart turned into a steel bullet,

Cold and smooth.

Once I tried to protest against this change

The warplanes saw my heart from a distance

And sent a rocket at me.

It blasted me from inside

So, I fragmentized … fragmentized

Until I saw the sparrow dropping

With one wing,

And I smelt the flower red and red.

With the word, I wrote my tear and bread

And I touched the bullet;

It was cold and smooth as death.

 

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