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Media review of souls and wings
To read some of the book reviews and comments from the readership, please go to the publisher’s web site Editions du Tanka francophone (Click on the title of the book; the English section comes after the French one).manual update: August 3rd 2010
English/French Tanka collection by a French-language poetess
For the first time, in nearly 50 years, a French language woman poet writes a complete collection of tanka (91) which is also offered in English: D’âmes et d’ailes/of souls and wings by Janick Belleau.of souls and wings is introduced with a HERstory of tanka since the 9th century (from Ono no Komachi to Tawara Machi including Jehanne Grandjean, the first Francophone poetess).
Click on either links (tanka or Sappho) for details and the totality of media coverage and comments from the readership.
manual update: August 3rd, 2010
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English media and comments
2010. of souls and wings / D'âmes et d'ailes
All book reviews and Readers' comments for 2010:
Aurora Antonovic in Ascent Aspirations
2008. Regards de femmes – haikus francophones
Comment of a guest author, Ava Kar (Anna Vakar).
2006. L’Erotique poème court / haiku
Comments by celebrated poets, one being Rod Willmot, editor of the 1983 collection, Erotic Haiku.
Juliet Wilson, New Hope International Review, UK
2003. Humeur… Sensibility… Alma… haiku / tanka
Interview of Janick Belleau by To Be Magazine in 2004.
Media and comments by well-known poets, one being Angela Leuck.