Sunday, February 04, 2018

One Man's Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume 3, 2017

Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu



Featured Poet:

The daily practice of crafting tanka is akin to writing lyrics. It connects me more closely to the natural world, and to myself.


Best Tanka:


migrating geese
writing cursive letters
across the sky
I finally read between
the white of your lies

Runner-up
British Haiku Society Tanka Awards, 2014/15


f i s s u r e s
and (whose) fault lines
cracking open
we try to mend the damage
of our quaking lives


Undertow Tanka Review 1, August 2014


Tanka of my choice:



the growth rings
of otoliths and trees . . .
when did she
become smaller
than her daughters

2nd Place
United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2017


the pair bonds
of prairie voles . . .
she asks
if he used to be
her husband

3rd Place
United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2017


the architecture
of impending storms . . .
every cloud
that hangs over me
has a given name

Honourable Mention
United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2017






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