The (, "National pronunciation poetry collection") is a collection of Vietnamese poetry written in the vernacular script. It is attributed to Nguyễn Trãi (: ). The collection of 254 poems was traditionally written after Nguyễn Trãi's retirement from court life.Mark W. McLeod, Thi Dieu Nguyen Culture and Customs of Vietnam 2001- Page 68 "... printing them — the earliest body of nom texts that we have dates from the early post-occupation era and is attributed to Nguyen Trai. In this collection of 254 nom poems, called Quoc Am Thi Tap (Collected Poems in the National Language), composed after his retirement from court life, Nguyen Trai gives vent to his disenchantment with politics and expresses his preference a rural life of rustic pleasures and quiet contemplation." It was compiled around the reign of emperor Lê Thánh Tông (1460–1497).

Background helped lead the development of as a script for Vietnamese, and it contains poetic themes not found in Literary Chinese poems. The text itself contains approximately 12,500 different characters that were used during the 15th century. The text tended to use characters for their sound rather than use phono-semantic characters that were later created as the was being developed. An example would be the phrase : normally it would be read as , but it is read as according to the reading.

Text + Vietnamese alphabet + ()Vietnamese alphabet

Influence The original influenced emperor-reformer Lê Thánh Tông was best known for his legal code. Lê Thánh Tông was also a poet and organized a literary group in 1495 called (: ). The group produced another vernacular collection, the (, " National pronunciation poetry collection").Mona Baker, Gabriela Saldanha Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies 2009 - Page 532 "The staff of Nam Phong also translated early Vietnamese texts in Chinese and Nôm into chữ Quốc ngữ, for example Hồng Đức quốc-âm thi-tập (Collected Poems of the Hồng Đức Period) and Phan Huy Chú's Lịch triều hiến chương loại chí (Regulations Made by the Various Dynasties, Arranged in Categories)."

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