Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Media coverage.
The Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. official newsletter "Images"
December 2009 - January 2010 Issue
Articles on the 4th Haiku Pacific Rim "Wind Over Water" in Terrigal, Australia and the 6th International Tanka Festival, Tokyo.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
10 pieces of my tanka was included in Kadokawa's "Contemporary Tanka Corpus."
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Vol. 1 LIVELIHOOD | |
| Vol. 2 LIFE | |||
| Vol. 3 NATURE | |||
| Vol. 4 SOCIETY & CULTURE | |||
| Appendix INDEX & CHRONOLOGY | |||
I am very much honored that my works are included in Kadokawa's "Contemporary Tanka Corpus", which is the encyclopedia of 3,000 tanka poems by 1,600 poets.
Vol. 1 LIVELIHOOD
-threnody- (mourning deceased mother)
sun shining
into corners of the glass door -
leaving behind
an unfinished letter,
Mother departed this life
-food- (jam)
standing there,
its back to the dining-table
where there's peach jam,
Death
casts no shadow
Vol. 2 LIFE
-juvenile- (boy)
has the green fish
been living
inside of me
since my son first
fell in love?
-married couple/parent and child- (loving mother)
sometimes
while I gaze at the sky
I'm thinking
of hydraulics, of what
my boy is studying
-family- (father)
I'm forgetting
those letters in the Cold Forest,
so stealthily
did my father
disappear
Vol. 3 NATURE
-seasons & nature- (winter)
way up high
in a bare tree
winter has come
bringing with it
letters for the deceased
-seasons & nature- (stars)
an accident
of birth:
on this same star
trees, wild beasts,
fish, people
Vol. 4 SOCIETY & CULTURE
-history & current news- (deserted village)
tranquilly ashes
continue to fall
on this ruined village
where like a scream
the silence shines
-country- (Tanzania)
how delightful are
Tanzanian place names:
'Ngorongoro'
comes rolling
out of my atlas
Monday, November 30, 2009
Oct. 11, 2009 I will perform Tanka reading at the 6th International Tanka Festival in Tokyo 2009.
Date & Time: October 11, 2009 Starting at 10.30
Place: Meiji Jingu Shrine, Sanshuden Hall
Organizer: Nihon Kajin Club
Friday, November 20, 2009
| Mariko Kitakubo Tanka Reading Collection "Messages" Produced an audio CD of my tanka reading collection, "Messages. The CD includes more than sixty tanka from "On This Same Star" and "Cicada Forest" categorized in five themes. Prepackaged bilingual booklet also shows phonetic spelling of Japanse tanka. I hope it turns out to be helpful for those who are not farmiliar with Japanese letters. |
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Price: US$15.00
e-mail query: tanka@kitakubo.com
Saturday, October 10, 2009
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