Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4 Published by Keibooks
M. Kei
Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4 Published by Keibooks
Perryville, Maryland – May 14, 2012 – Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume Four Published
Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, the anthology series founded by tanka poet and editor, M. Kei, has announced the publication of Volume Four. Now on sale, it features 260 pages with the largest selection yet of tanka poetry and related forms, making it the single largest volume in the series. It retails for $18.00, and can be bought direct from the printer at CreateSpace.com, or through Amazon.com and other online retailers.
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The editorial team consisting of M. Kei, editor-in-chief (USA), Patricia Prime (NZ), Magdalena Dale (RO), Amelia Fielden (AUS), Claire Everett (UK), Owen Bullock (NZ), David Terelinck (AUS), Janick Belleau (CAN), and David Rice (USA), read all tanka published in English during 2011 with the goal of selecting the best individual tanka, kyoka, waka, gogyohka, gogyoshi, tanka sequences, tanka prose, and responsive tanka for inclusion in the annual anthology. The team read approximately eighteen thousand poems to choose nearly four hundred for inclusion in the fourth and final volume in the Take Five series.
Contemporary tanka and related forms in English are an exciting literature that continues to grow and develop in the hands of increasingly diverse poets around the world. Originating in Japan over fourteen hundred years ago, it remains a strong and flexible form evoking profound responses in the reader. This year’s volume is especially affected by the triple disaster in Japan. Poets who lived through the disaster bear witness to the ruin in their poems, while other poets around the world waited anxiously for news and were compelled by the disaster to reassess the fragility of their own lives. Many of the poems published in this volume reflect ‘aware,’ the Japanese aesthetic that focuses on the perishability of the world.
Contributors for this volume are:
Adelaide B. Shaw, Akiko Hasegawa, Alan S. Bridges, Alan Summers, Alex von Vaupel, Alexander Ask, Alexis Rotella, Alison Williams, Amelia Fielden, André Surridge, Andrew Riutta, Angela Leuck, Angie LaPaglia, Anita Virgil, Anne Benjamin, an'ya, Antoinette Libro, Askold Skalsky, Aubrie Cox, Audrey Olberg, Autumn Noelle Hall, Aya Yuhki, Barbara Robidoux, Barbara A. Taylor, Barry Goodmann, Beatrice van de Vis, Becky Alexander, Belinda Broughton, Bett Angel-Stawarz, Bette Norcross Wappner, Beverley George, Beverly Acuff Momoi, Bob Lucky, Brendan Slater, Brian Zimmer, Byakuren Yanagihara, C. William Hinderliter, Carla Sari, Carlos Colón, Carmel Summers, Carmella Braniger, Carol Pearce-Worthington, Carol Purington, Carol Raisfeld, Carole MacRury, Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti,Catherine Mair, Catherine Smith, Cathy Drinkwater Better, Chad Lee Robinson, Charles Tarlton, Chen-ou Liu, Cherie Hunter Day, Christina Nguyen, Claire Everett, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Colin Stewart Jones, Collin Barber, Curtis Dunlap, Cynthia Rowe, David Caruso, David Platt, David Rice, David Steele, David Terelinck, Dawn Bruce, Dawn Colsey, Deborah P. Kolodji, Dee Evetts, Diane Mayr, Dietmar Tauchner, Dimitar Anakiev, Doreen King, Dorothy McLaughlin, Dorothy Walker, Dru Philippou, Dy Andreasen, Edith Bartholomeusz, Elaine Riddell, Elehna de Sousa, Elizabeth Bodien, Elizabeth Howard, Enta Kusakabe, Eve Luckring, Fonda Bell Miller, Francis Masat, Gary LeBel, Gavin Austin, Gennady Nov, Geoffrey Winch, George Swede, Gerd Börner, Gerry Jacobson, Giselle Maya, Grant D. Savage, Guy Simser, H. Gene Murtha, Hannah Mahoney, Harue Aoki, Heather Feaga, Helen Buckingham, Helen Yong, Hortensia Anderson, Huguette Ducharme, Ignatius Fay, Ikuko Melze, Ikuyo Okamoto, J. Andrew Lockhart, J. M. Rowland,J. Zimmerman, James Tipton, Jan Dean, Jan Foster, Jane Reichhold, Janet Lynn Davis, Janick Belleau, Jeanne Emrich,Jeanne Lupton,Jeff Hoagland, Jeffrey Woodward,Jim Schneider, Jo McInerney, Joanna Ashwell, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, John Parsons, John Quinnett, John Samuel Tieman,John Soules, John Stevenson, Johnny Baranski, Joyce S. Greene, Joyce Wong, Judith Ahmed, Jules Cohn Botea, Julie Thorndyke, Kala Ramesh, Karen Audioun Klingman, Karen Peterson Butterworth, Kate King, Kath Abela Wilson, Kathe L. Palka, Katherine Samuelowicz, Kathy Lippard Cobb, Keitha Keyes, Kirsten Cliff, Kirsty Karkow, Klaus-Dieter Wirth, Kozue Uzawa, Larry Neily, Laurence Stacey, LeRoy Gorman, Leslie Giddens, Leslie Ihde, Liam Wilkinson,Linda Galloway, Linda Jeannette Ward, Linda Papanicolaou, Lisa Alexander Baron, Lisa M. Tesoriero, Liz Rule, Lois Holland, Lucas Stensland, Luminita Suse, Lynn D. Bueling, Lynette Arden, M. Kei, Magdalena Dale, Makoto Nakanishi, Margaret Chula, Margaret Conley, Margaret Dornaus, Margaret Fensom, Margaret Grace, Margaret Owen Ruckert, Margaret Van Every, Margarita Engle, Maria Steyn, Marian Morgan, Marian Olson, Marie Lecrivain, Mariko Kitakubo, Marilyn Hazelton, Marilyn Humbert, Marjorie Buettner, Mark Holloway, Martin Lucas, Mary Franklin, Mary Kipps, Mary Lou Bittle-DeLapa, Mary Mageau, Matt Quinn, Matthew Caretti, Max Ryan, Maxianne Berger, Mel Goldberg, Melissa Allen, Merle Connolly, Michael Ketchek, Michael McClintock, Michael Thorley, Michele L. Harvey, Micheline Beaudry, Mike Montreuil, Mira N. Mataric, Miriam Sagan, Naoko Kishigami Selland, Naomi Beth Wakan, Noele Norris, Owen Bullock, Paginini Jones, Pamela A. Babusci, Patricia Prime, Paul Smith, Peggy Heinrich, Polona Oblak, Quendryth Young, Raffael de Gruttola, Randy Brooks, Renee Gregorio, Richard von Sturmer, Rie Ezaki, Roary Williams, Robert McNeill, Robert Smith, 1Robert West, Rodney Williams, Ron C. Moss, Ron Woollard, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Ruby Spriggs, Ruth Holzer, Saeko Ogi, 1Sakurako, Sanford Goldstein, Sanjukta Asopa, Sarah Wika, Seren Fargo, Sheila Sondik, 1Shernaz Wadia, Shona Bridge, Sonam Chhoki, Sonja Arntzen, Spiros Zafiris, Stanford M. Forrester, Stella Pierides, Steve Mangan, Steve Wilkinson, Sue Richards, Susan Constable, Svetlana Marisova, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, T. J. Edge, Takako Nazuka, Taro Aizu, Terra Martin, Terry Ann Carter, Terry Ingram, Tess Driver, Tessa Wooldridge, Tim Geaghan, Tito, Tom Clausen, Tomohime, Tracy Davidson, Vasile Moldovan, Vasile Smărăndescu, Veronica Shanks, Victor P. Gendrano, Yūko Kawano
About the Editors:
M. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay (USA) and apprenticed aboard a skipjack, a sail-powered oyster dredge. He now serves with a fully rigged ship. His publications include over 1400 tanka poems in six languages and ten countries. He is the editor-in-chief of the anthology series, Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, and the author of Slow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, Recommended Reading by the Chesapeake Bay Project. He edits Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka. He is the compiler of the Bibliography of English-Language Tanka, which documents over one thousand publications from 1899 to the present day. He is also the author of the award-winning gay Age of Sail adventure series, Pirates of the Narrow Seas.
Patricia Prime, a semi-retired early childhood teacher, lives in Auckland, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Kokako, reviews editor of Takahe, and reviews/interviews editor of Haibun Today. Patricia has been one of the editors of the Take Five anthologies since their inception. Her poems, reviews, literary essays and interviews have been published in the World Poetry Almanac (Mongolia) and in various journals. She is currently writing collaborative tanka sequences with an Australian poet and shisan renga with poets from Europe and also from New Zealand. Her work is scheduled for publication in Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, Lynx, Atlas Poetica, Gusts, Eucalypt, multiverses and red lights, among others.
Magdalena Dale was born in, and lives in, Bucharest, Romania. She is a member of the Romanian Society of Haiku and World Haiku Association. Her work has been published in several reviews and anthologies in her country and abroad. Her tanka and haiku have appeared in more literary sites online. She wrote a bilingual tanka book Perle de roua/Dew pearls, a bilingual renga book Mireasma de tei/ Fragrance of lime with Vasile Moldovan and a bilingual haiku book Ecourile tăcerii/ The echoes of silence. She received several awards for her work.
Amelia Fielden is an Australian professional translator and an internationally awarded and published tanka poet. Seventeen books of her translations of modern and contemporary Japanese tanka have appeared over the last 11 years, with a further two volumes forthcoming in 2012. Amelia has also published six collections of her own tanka, the most recent being Light On Water (2010). She has collaborated with other Australian poets to produce four books of responsive tanka, including Yesterday,Today & Tomorrow (2011) with Kathy Kituai, and the bilingual Words Flower (2011) with Saeko Ogi. Amelia is happy to be contacted at anafi...@hotmail.com.
Claire Everett's haiku, tanka, and more recently, haibun and tanka prose, have appeared in many of the short-form poetry journals worldwide. She was a contributing poet for cycle 11 (spring/summer 2011) of the online journal Daily Haiku. Claire's interest in tanka prose increased when she was invited by M. Kei to conduct an in-depth interview with Jeffrey Woodward for Atlas Poetica 9 (July, 2011) discussing the history and practice of tanka prose. She is now delighted to be the tanka prose editor for Haibun Today. Claire lives with her husband and five children in North Yorkshire, England, and draws most of her inspiration from walks on the Moors and Dales and in the Lake District.
Owen Bullock's first tanka appeared in tangled hair in 2000, and thereafter in Eucalypt, Lynx, Magnapoets, Modern English Tanka, Moonset, paper wasp, Atlas Poetica, Presence, etc. He has published a collection of haiku, wild camomile (Post Pressed, Australia, 2009); fiction, A Cornish Story (Palores, UK, 2010), and poetry, sometimes the sky isn't big enough (Steele Roberts, New Zealand, 2010). Owen has edited a number of journals, including Kokako and Poetry NZ. He is currently on the International Editorial Board for the online journal, Axon: Creative Explorations (University of Canberra). He teaches creative writing online for the Waiariki Institute of Technology and the New Zealand Writers' College. <http://www.owenbullock.com/>
David Terelinck (Sydney, NSW, Australia) is a full-time employee and part-time writer who seriously wishes the balance were reversed. He has been involved in creative writing for more than twenty-five years with many awards for his short stories, articles and poetry. David has been writing tanka for the past five years and has been widely published in international tanka journals. David's first tanka collection, Casting Shadows, was published in late 2011. During the same year, David co-edited Grevillea & Wonga Vine: Australian Tanka of Place, with Beverley George. He enjoys giving tanka and other creative writing workshops, and lives by his motto scribo ergo respiro. In 2012 he is looking forward to joining the editorial panel of the Canadian journal, GUSTS: Contemporary Tanka.
Janick Belleau’s latest publication D’âmes et d’ailes / of souls and wings—a bilingual tanka collection won her the Canada-Japan Award in 2010. She edited the collective work Regards de femmes—haïkus francophones in 2008 and coedited L'Érotique poème court / haïku in 2006. Her feature articles and presentations in Canada, in France and in Japan deal with the contribution of women in the advancement of haiku and tanka.
David Rice lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and aging dog. Three children and three grandchildren also live in the Bay Area. He has been reading and writing tanka for more than twenty years, and his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. He has self-published two tanka chapbooks and, with Cherie Hunter Day, the collaborative tanka sequence Kindle of Green (2008). In 2012 he became the editor of Ribbons.
For media inquiries or to arrange an interview, contact editor-in-chief M. Kei by e-mail at: Keibooks at gmail dot com. Publisher information at: www.AtlasPoetica.org
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Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka
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