Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

by Amelia Fielden, Kathy Kituai

Overview

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is an innovative project continuing and developing the collaborative relationship between two fine tanka poets, Amelia Fielden and Kathy Kituai.

This is a tanka diary, extending over one calendar year, where the two poets interact and respond to each other's reflections as the days pass.

It is thus creative and personal, with many opportunities for contrast and agreement.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014587860
Publisher:	IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
Publication date:	06/23/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	142
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Australian poet, Amelia Fielden, has a Master of Arts degree in Japanese Literature and is a professional translator who also writes original verse in the tradition Japanese tanka form.

Retired in 20003 from government translation service in Canberra, Amelia divides her time now between homes in Canberra and on the Central Coast north of Sydney. Amelia and her husband Arthur are happy to have five children, seven grandchildren and two labradoodles in their family.

Kathy Kituai has three loves: writing poetry, collaborating with other artists, facilitating creative writing courses.

Kathy has published six poetry collections and been a recipient of the Canberra Critics Circle Award. Her first tanka collection, Straggling into Winter, was Highly Commended in the 2007 IP Picks Best Poetry Award.

She has won awards for her free verse such as the CJ Dennis Literary Award, St Kilda Literature competition. She's also been short-listed for the Act Poetry Award, and the Banjo Paterson Award.

Editorial Reviews

Kituai and Fielden's responsive tanka capture the rhythms and extremities of our unique Australian landscape. From the devastation of the Black Saturday fires and the government cull of kangaroos to the exquisite beauty of 'galahs sweeping skywards from the dunes', there is a depth of wisdom and emotion in these poems waiting to be revealed; a keenly observed ecstasy for life.

Graham Nunn

Lyrical and sensitive, these responses capture sadness and grief, desire and joy, and express innate appreciation and value for life. Kituai and Fielden record both the small and larger experiences that affect us as individual and community; be it the silver wedding ring of the man who offers his seat, or the children ripped out of reach by a tsunami.

David Terelinck

These are poems to be savoured in the mouth and tanka to listen to: they demand to be read aloud, sung. Some tanka seem not so much written as orchestrated – sounds and meaning giving way to music and musical effects. There is exuberance and a love of nature and language throughout this collection, and also an irresistible sense of play.

Patricia Prime

The result is a distillation of emotions, clear perceptions and strong images which, is like sipping the best plum wine while wandering through a marvellous art exhibition.

This book is one to be savoured.

Margaret L Grace