The thrill and joy of ‘tsukeai’
13 August 2015 by Shuntaro Tanikawa In the practice of traditional renku, from which the modern renshi originated, …
Trilingual renshi chronicle
13 August 2015 by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto March 5, 2015: Listening to the BBC World News about ISIS at home in Munich, my mind drifts …
Yasuhiro Yotsumoto
(Japan, 1959)
Yasuhiro Yotsumoto was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1959 and grew up mostly in Hiroshima. …
Trilingual renshi
(Asia, 2015)
Renshi is a modern version of the traditional Japanese linked poem, …
Shinjiro Kurahara
(Japan, 1899–1965)
Shinjiro Kurahara was an artist of multiple genres – he sketched, wrote short …
Killing the Poet, Saving the Poetry
28 April 2013 by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto Shuntaro Tanikawa stopped writing poetry around 1996. He continued to write light verses for …
The Poetry of the Anti-Poetic
3 September 2012 by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto In this second Poetry International issue featuring Shuntaro Tanikawa, we include prose poems …
Recalcitrant Words
3 September 2012 by Takako Lento In his ‘Self Introduction’ (Poetry International Japan March 2012) Tanikawa lists a …
Yasuhiro Yotsumoto
13 March 2012 by Poetry International Yasuhiro Yotsumoto was born in Osaka, Japan on in 1959. His first collection of poetry, A Laughing …
Shuntaro Tanikawa
(Japan, 1931)
Shuntaro Tanikawa has been a phenomenon in Japan since the publication of his first …
Portrait of a poet: A translator’s notes
1 March 2012 by Takako Lento Tanikawa believes poetry should speak for itself. I share his belief. I admire the type of poetry …
Heiichi Sugiyama
(Japan, 1914)
Born in 1914, Heiichi Sugiyama has lived through many dramatic changes in the cultural …
 
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