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    Romantic Poetry Forum: Winter, January 2022

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Prose translated; quoted poems remain in Japanese

    A January 2022 gathering brings together New Year poems, reunion and hometown memories, with discussion of sound and expression in verse.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Recent Tanka, 3

    Author: Seishu HamanoOnline Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    Poems on winter, bodily frailty, love and impermanence are accompanied by responses to Saito Mokichi and reference poems by Yosano Akiko.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Tanka Models, 1

    Author: Seishu HamanoOnline Manyo-shu: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3Originally published: Full English translation available

    Examples of tanka revisit wartime childhood, family and changing seasons, accompanied by discussion of allusive composition and advice on writing from lived feeling.