This collection of new and selected poems, like the jam that metaphorically spreads itself throughout, "sparkles like liquid gems in a momentary sun." Kathy Kituai takes us deeper into all our lives. She has the ability take the most ordinary experiences and imbue them with extraordinariness, to find the transcendent in the physical, the complex in the simple. These poems are deeply rooted in personal memory and quiet emotional courage. They are vivid acts of seeing-contemporary free verse with the timeless quality of Japanese Tanka.
Kathy Kituai's craft is notable for carefully chosen diction and striking. Water becomes cream of black opal. After a rosella crashes into a window, "how loud the silence that follows."
Sprache
Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-922830-74-6 (9781922830746)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Kathy Kituai, a diarist, editor, poet, creative writing teacher (Scotland, NSW and ACT) and founder and facilitator of the Limestone Tanka Poets is never happier than when working with other writers and artists. Apart from publishing two tanka collection with Amelia Fielden, she has published poetry with numerous poets, was awarded Arts ACT funding to work with a potter, Fergus Stewart, in Scotland to produce Deep in the Valley of Tea Bowls. Nitya Bernard Parker improvised music for their CD, The Heart Takes Wing. Composer, Rosemary Austin created a musical Script The Lacemaker, the poem Elizabeth Dalmon danced to at Tillies and The Fringe - South Australia Writing Festival. Kathy was an assistant editor for the Institute of PNG Studies, tanka editor for Cattails, and Muse magazine, is published in Japan, Canada New Zealand, India, UK, USA and Australia, was president and vice president of The Fellowship of Writers, a host of Poetry Readings at Manning Clarke House, the Steering Committee for the Weereewa Lake George Arts Festival, and Arts ACT funding committee. She has judged literary competitions and co-judged the Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Competition. Accolades for her free-verse include CJ Dennis Award, St Kilda Literature Competition, Banjo Patterson Poetry Award (equal second), Somerset Poetry Prize, (runner up), The Broadway Poetry Award (finalist), and she was awarded two ACT Critic awards for her teaching. Her tanka have also been successful in the Mainichi Japanese Tanka Award, Tea Towel Award (Responses to the art of Otagaki Rengetsu), the Fuji Tanka Award, Eucalypt Scribbler's Award and Ribbons People's Choice Award.
