**Xia Bo (pen name: Bo Xia)**, Bo Xia is an intercultural scholar and poet in Europe. His research spans cross-cultural poetics, comparative aesthetics, philosophy of language and religious studies, and he holds academic affiliation with the European Academy of Religion.
He has established four original theoretical frameworks: Evidential Poetics, Authentic Perception Theory (APT), Ontological Reconstruction (OR), and Poetic Substance. A member of The Poetry Society (UK), he maintains regular scholarly exchanges with the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar and other prestigious European academic societies.
His poetic works have won warm appreciation from the editor and readership of Poetry Magazine, one of the world’s leading poetry journals. His writings have been translated into English, German, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Multiple poetry manuscripts and two academic monographs have completed the first round of peer review at renowned publishing houses across Europe and North America.
His research and creations have gained wide recognition from European cultural and academic institutions. The Ministry of Culture of Georgia preserves his academic archive, and the Petőfi Literary Museum in Hungary has spoken highly of his contributions to cross-cultural poetics. His 61 comparative studies on international poets are permanently archived on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19017569). He writes and publishes actively in both English and German.
His core artistic maxim: Poetry is perception within time and space—another kind of graceful, soulful listening.