Major tanka writers in English - Alan Hill
Alan (1934 -) has been writing tanka poems since 1968: this was his first: Shipwrecked leaf steers to avoid a sucking drain. Red hawthorn...
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Mar 192 min read
Major tanka writers in English – Arthur Waley
A translator rather than an original writer, Arthur Waley (1889-1966) achieved both academic and popular acclaim. He was the first to...
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Mar 142 min read
Where does the English tanka go from here?
Arthur Waley was fluent in both Chinese and Japanese, and translated verse and drama in both languages into English. Despite never...
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Mar 122 min read
Major tanka writers in English – James Kirkup
James Kirkup (1918 – 2009) was an English poet, academic and translator. He spent 30 years of his working life in Japan, teaching English...
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Mar 72 min read
Counting syllables
The debate continues among tanka writers – how important is the 31-syllable length? How important is the length of each of the five...
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