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231 items
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Winter, January 2022
A January 2022 gathering brings together New Year poems, reunion and hometown memories, with discussion of sound and expression in verse.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Autumn, November 2021
A November 2021 gathering considers newly prominent words and the value of fresh phrasing in poems drawn from everyday observation.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Autumn, October 2021
An October 2021 gathering connects autumn reading with poetry composition and memories of school reunions during the pandemic.
- Essays
The Salome Within
An essay revisits Oscar Wilde’s Salome at different stages of the writer’s life and relates its questions of ancestry and inner conflict to the author’s own fiction.
- Essays
For Kawachi Is Our Homeland
A brief introduction links to a Japanese biographical work about Seishu Hamano, associated with his origins in Sakai.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, July 2021
A July 2021 gathering reflects on language shaped by the pandemic and discusses poems about bereavement, travel and masked commuters.
- Poetry & creative work
Singing of Life
Tanka with prose recollections bring together a mother’s flower-arranging practice, the landscapes of Hoshino, life in coal-mining communities and remembrance of a relative who worked in education.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, June 2021
A June 2021 gathering reflects on words for the rainy season and discusses tanka in relation to everyday experience and memories of war and peace.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, April 2021
An April 2021 gathering considers the many Japanese names for spring rain and poems shaped by weather, observation and renewed attendance during the pandemic.
- Essays
Strengthening Sakai’s Higashi Ward through Local Identity
Material for a May 2021 symposium proposes distinctive development for Sakai’s Higashi Ward and discusses decentralisation and cooperation between residents and local government.
- Essays
Wakare no Ipponsugi and the Hometown in the Heart
An essay examines song lyrics and memory through Wakare no Ipponsugi, considering how a song can evoke an inner hometown; recordings accompany the discussion.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, March 2021
A March 2021 account brings together a poetry gathering, cherry-blossom viewing and a walk through local historical sites, with photographs of the outing.