Typhoon Etiquette E-Book

Katrina Naomi

• Herausgeber: Verve Poetry Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 16

Beschreibung

Verve Poetry Press are thrilled that the wonderful Katrina Naomi has asked us to publish the poems that came out of her recent Arts Council supported writing trip to Japan. And a wonderful group of poems they are, that at once depict Japan, its traditions, its customs with great enthusiasm but also a healthy dose of heart-on-sleave puzzlement. Katrina doesn't pretend she is an expert. She is very much an English poet abroad. Also included are Katrina's translations of Haiku by two Japanese masters which have previously been published in MPT magazine. Altogether, this is Katrina trying something new, but with the quality, the wonderful way with words, the earnest grappling with the perceived world that characterises all her work.

Leseprobe

PUBLISHED BY VERVE POETRY PRESS

Birmingham, West Midlands, UK

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© 2019 Katrina Naomi

The right of Katrina Naomi to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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FIRST PUBLISHED APR 2019

Printed in Birmingham by Positive Print

ISBN: 978-1-912565-20-7

ePUB ISBN: 978-1-912565-77-1

CONTENTS

Today I Saw Mount Fuji

Self-Introduction

I Believe in Gender Equality

On Trying to Write in Matsumisho, a Place Bashō Found Impossible to Write About Because of its Beauty

Greetings from Yamanashi

In a Plum Grove

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Tanka for Hiroshi

Versions of Yasuaki Inoue’s Haiku

In the Room Specifically for Resting at the Tokyo National Museum

First Tea Ceremony

And Today There’s a Risk of Bears on the Path

Five O’Clock Tanka

Versions of Dakotsu Iida’s Haiku

Interpretation

Whoever Said the British Invented the Queue Had Never Been to Japan

Where Only the Gods May Walk

Michiyo Plays the Koto

What Arrival Feels Like

Notes

for Michiyo Takano and Maura Dooley

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A poem is the cross-section of a whirlwind,do not nail it too soon to the page, and then onlyin such a manner as it will soon fly of the page.

– Peter Redgrove, 1970 notebook no. 39, SUA archive

Today I Saw Mount Fuji

through a glass wall

at the new university

I nearly fell down the clean staircase

It was like seeing the Mona Lisa for the first time

only better

I felt I might cry

or drop my books

or have a stupid expression

and, for once, I honestly didn’t care

Self-Introduction