NEW as of June 2011
A hand-made book by the artist Claire Dufresne with 62 bilingual haiku & tanka by JBLimited edition of eight copies
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Manual update: July 2011
Co-editor of Take Five - tanka anthology 2011
Coeditor of Take Five - tanka anthology, volume 4, 2011, directed by M. Kei (US). Along with tanka colleagues Patricia Prime (N.-Z.), Magdalena Dale (Romania), Amelia Fielden (AUS/JP), Claire Everett (UK), Owen Bullock (N.-Z.), David Terelinck (AUS) and David Rice (US).Task: The editorial team reads, nominates and selects tanka published in English, in 2011, around the world… which amounts to nearly 20 000 tanka; only 300 of them will make it in the anthology which will be published in the Spring of 2012.
Manual update: June 2011
Canada-Japan Award 2010 for of souls and wings
JB, winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award 2010 (French-language section) for her bilingual collection D’âmes et d’ailes /of souls and wings. For details about this Award, click below.To read the summary of the book, click on the Tanka section; the Jury's comments and the words of the Ambassador of Japan in Canada, ISHIKAWA Kaoru and the reviews and interviews, click on English Media; for English-speaking customers or a Press Service, click on Order form.
manual update: July 25, 2011
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Bio-bibliography
Janick Belleau was born in Montreal. Graduated from the University of Ottawa in French Literature and Social Communications. Lived 7 years in Winnipeg. Back in Montreal since 1987. Published a sociocultural portrait, Le Manitoba des femmes répond – questionnaire Gabrielle-Roy (1985, Winnipeg); a short poems collection, L’en-dehors du désir (1988, Winnipeg),a haiku and tanka collection, Humeur… Sensibility… Alma… (2003, Montreal) the latter, partially in three languages, a tanka collection in both French and English, D'âmes et d'ailes / of souls and wings (2010, Laval; winner of the French section Canada-Japan Award 2010). She coauthored with Micheline Beaudry an erotic haiku and senryu anthology containing 182 previously unpublished poems from 77 contemporary poets, L’Erotique poème court / haiku (2006, Brussels). She authored another anthology composed of 86 haiku women and 283 of their previously unpublished poems, Regards de femmes – haikus francophones (2008, Lyon / Montreal). Her poetry (tanka and haiku) and her feature articles appear in feminist and literary journals mainly in French-speaking countries. She also gives talks on the writing of women poets in French and in English. She is a member of Association française de haiku (France), Haiku International Association (Japan), Haiku Canada and the Haiku Foundation, USA