EVENTS
WHAT'S NEW?
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
Read more about it on this web site
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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