4 more poems published
This time 4 Tanka were published by Catchment edition4 Australian Haiku Society June 2025. All published poems can be found here with the 4 Tanka, latest works accepted. The list is ongoing as i backtrack to load all my published works. updating my poetry site. TANKA - a brief explanation below of the form taken from poets.org website : From A Poet’s Glossary The following additional definition of the term tanka is reprinted from A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch. The tanka is sometimes separated by the three “upper lines” ( kami no ku ) and the two “lower ones” ( shimo no ku ). The upper unit is the origin of the haiku. The brevity of the poem and the turn from the upper to the lower lines, which often signals a shift or expansion of subject matter, is one of the reasons the tanka has been compared to the sonnet. There is a range of words, or engo (verbal associations), that traditionally associate or bridge the sections....