Atlas Poetica Announces ‘Snipe Rising from a Marsh’ Special Feature
Atlas Poetica
Atlas Poetica Announces ‘Snipe Rising from a Marsh’ Special Feature
Press Release – For Immediate Release – Please post to all appropriate venues
20 April 2012 — Perryville, Maryland, USA
Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka is pleased to announce the ‘Snipe Rising from a Marsh’ edited by Rodney Williams of Australia. ‘Snipe Rising from a Marsh’ continues ATPO’s tradition of hosting Special Features devoted to a particular topic in tanka that evokes a strong sense of place.
Sixty-five poets from five continents submitted two hundred and fifty poems, but only twenty-five were selected, following the standard format of for the Special Features of one poem each by twenty-five poets. Deliberately evoking Saigyo’s tanka about a snipe rising from a marsh, these tanka embody ancient traditions, but are fresh and new.
Each poem is accompanied by the Latin name and the real world location of the bird, allowing the reader a glimpse into a particular place and time. These are not imaginary birds made up to suit our convenience, but real birds, and they connect us to the larger world of which we and they are both a part. Tanka is not just a form of literature, it is a way of seeing and being that connects deeply to the richness of the real world.
Atlas Poetica is an international tanka journal that publishes all forms of tanka literature: tanka, kyoka, and gogyoshi, along with prose, sequences and sets, shaped poetry, and non-fiction. The Atlas Poetica Special Features section highlights different aspects of the literature presented by different guest editors. This spring it will present ‘Snipe Rising from a Marsh,’ edited by Rodney Williams, on the theme of birds.
Designed by Alex von Vaupel, Technical Director for Atlas Poetica, the website hosts information about the journal, submission guidelines, ordering information and sample issues. Previous Special Features are archived free online.
About the editor:
Rodney Williams’ tanka—often featuring birds—have been published in Australia (especially in Eucalypt); in America, New Zealand, Austria and Canada; and on international websites. Before editing Snipe Rising from a Marsh, he had tanka appear in other ATPO Special Features, plus Take Five and Catzilla! (USA), Grevillea and Wonga Vine, and Food for Thought (Australia). Rodney feels blessed that dairy-farms and eucalypt forests around him in Gippsland, Victoria, boast many Australian parrots and cockatoos.
About Keibooks:
Keibooks is a micropress located in Perryville, Maryland, USA, founded by M. Kei, a poet and tall ship sailor. Keibooks publishes select projects reflecting his interest in tanka poetry and the sea. Using print-on-demand technology, Keibooks is able to publish high quality literature in attractive, affordable editions.
Keibooks is home to Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka, and previously published Fire Pearls : Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart, a classic anthology of tanka love poems, as well as several other titles. It recently published Catzilla! Tanka, Kyoka, and Gogyoshi About Cats. For more information, visit: http://AtlasPoetica.org
Contact:
M. Kei, publisher and editor
Keibooks
P O Box 516,
Perryville, MD, 21903, USA.
Email: Keibooks (at) gmail.com
M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka
AtlasPoetica.org
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