【古老的敵意】是呼應香港國際詩歌節之夜2017而出版的二十四本詩選套裝，由北島、柯夏智、宋子江所編，收錄了來至世界各地，如南非、智利、美國、英國、加拿大、波蘭、法國、日本、葡萄牙、敘利亞、波斯尼亞、南韓、澳洲、德國、俄發羅斯、希臘、中國大陸、香港等優秀當代詩人的作品，以雙語或三語呈現。另設有二十四本詩選套裝，為單本詩歌合集的擴充版本。這二十四本小書可以單獨購買。
InternationalPoetryNightsinHongKong(IPNHK)isoneofthemostinfluentialinternationalpoetryeventsinAsia.From22–26November2017,over20invitedpoetsfromvariouscountries,ADONIS(Syria),AgnesS.L.Lam(HongKong),AnjaUtler(Germany),ChanChiTak(HongKong),CharlesBernstein(US),ChenDongdong(China),CHENXianfa(China),ChowYiuFai(HongKong),DmitryVedenyapin(Russia),GabebaBaderoon(SouthAfrica),GeorgeSzirtes(UK),HarisVlavianos(Greece),JavierBello(Chile),JérômeGame(France),JohnBurnside(UK),JuliaFiedorczuk(Poland),LornaCrozier(Canada),MajorJackson(US),Maramal-Masri(Syria),MarkTREDINNICK(Australia),MoonChung-hee(SouthKorea),NunoJúdice(Portugal),SemezdinMehmedinović(Bosnia),ShuntarôTanikawa(Japan),ToshikoHirata(Japan),willbeinHongKongtoreadtheirworksbasedonthetheme“AncientEnmity.”Thecollectionmakesatreasuredcontemporarypoetryanthologyintrilingualorbilingualpresentation.
EditedbyBeiDao,LucasKleinandChrisSong,theAncientEnmitytwenty-fourvolumeboxsetisanextendededitionofthesingle-volumeanthology.Includedaretwenty-fourpocket-sizedpaperbacksencasedinafinepaperbox,containingworksbyeachofthepoetsincludedintheanthology,accompaniedbyEnglishand/orChinesetranslations.Thiscollectionseekstomakeaccessiblethebestofcontemporaryinternationalpoetrywithoutstandingtranslations.Eachofthetwenty-fourvolumescanbepurchasedseparately.
