Collection forms of Urdu poetry

There are two principal collection forms of Urdu poetry 

1)    Diwan

Diwan is a collection of poems. The English usage of the phrase Diwan Poetry comes from the Arabic word Diwan, borrowed from Persian and means selected list or register. Diwan also borrowed into Armenian, Urdu and Turkish. In Persian, Turkish and other languages the meaning of Diwan is a collection of selected poems by a single author or complete body of work of a poet. For example, Diwan-e-Mir would be the collected works of Mir Taqi Mir.    

2)    Kulliyat

A complete collection of poems, but sometimes applied to any collection which containing various kinds of poems. Like Akbar Allahabadi published three kulliyats.

Kulliyat of few poets are:

• Kulliyat of Saadi, a Persian poet
• Kulliyat of Zakani, a Tajik-Persian writer
• Kulliyat of Hafez, a Tajik-Persian poet
• Kulliyat of Mir, an Indian Urdu poet
• Kulliyat of Anis, an Indian Urdu poet
• Kulliyat of Sauda, an Indian Urdu poet
• Kulliyat of Dagh, an Indian poet
• Kulliyat of Hasrat, an Indian Urdu poet
• Kulliyat of Manto, an Urdu writer
• Kulliyat of Kaifi, an Indian Urdu poet
• Akbar Allahabadi, an Indian Urdu poet from Allahabad
• Kulliyat of Iqbal, an Indian Urdu poet & philosopher having four collections, Bang-i-Dara; Bal-i-Jibreel; Armughan-i-Hijaz, and Zarb-i-Kaleem