KOZUE UZAWA  tanka poet / editor / translator / educator / researcher (updated April 2012)
 PUBLICATIONS
    Books Shinukku - Yuki Kuu Kaze (Chinook - Snow Eater) : collection of tanka (in Japanese), 2012.

About 500 are selected from tanka appeared in the Kokoro no Hana from 1997 to 2011. . .
                                               Published by Tanka Kenkyu-sha press, Tokyo.




I'm a Traveler: a collection of tanka, 2011.
     
    * This book was displayed at the POETS HOUSE SHOWCASE 2011, NYC, New York, during summer, together with other several books published by MET Press in 2010~2011.
     
      For details: http://www.themetpress.com/news/index.html
                         
                                                                              Published by Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore




Kaleidoscope (Mangekyo): Selected Tanka of Shuji Terayama. (co-translation), 2008.

                                          Published by Hokuseido Press Tokyo




Ferris Wheel: 101 modern and contemporary tanka (co-translation), 2006. 

                                     ***This book received the 2007 Donald Keene Translation Award for Japanese Literature from Columbia University, New York.

                                                                                                          photo: Ruri Hazama
                                              Published by Cheng & Tsui, Boston


As Things Are. Translation of Kawano Yuko's 100 best tanka (co-translation), 2005.

                        Canberra: Ginninderra Press



Kashu Kanada Nite (In Canada -- a collection of tanka written from 1992 to1997) 1998.

                 ***One of the poems is included in Shin Ori Ori no Uta No.5 (Ed. M. O'oka), published by Iwanami, Tokyo. 2000

                                                     Tokyo: Shinpusha

(You can read some poems from this book if your computer has Japanese fonts.  Please go to the Japanese Page. )  




    Book reviews, etc. Blurb for To Sadie at 18 monthes and other poems (chapbook) by Edward J. Reilly (Maine: Moon Pie Press), 2011.

Afterword for about the blue moon by Joanne Morcom (Edmonton:Inkling Press). 2009.

Blurb for Meals at Midnight by Michael McClintock (hard-cover edition; Baltimore: Modern English Tanka Press), 2008.

Review of Behind Summer (translation of Natsu no Ushiro by Kuriki Kyoko) by A. Fielden and A. Yuhki (2005, Canberra: Ginninderra Press). Tanka Journal, 27,  2005.

Review of Cold Waves: A Life of Tanka by Anna Holley and its Japanese translation by Aya Yuhki, 1999, Dallas, TX: Ashi Press.) Tanka Journal,  17, p. 31, 2000.

    Journals 

You can find my English tanka / translations / essays in the following journals. See My English Tanka page-- you can read some of my English tanka there.

Eucalyput (Australia)
Gusts (Canada)
Modern English Tanka; red lights; Ribbons (Tanka Cafe); Season's Greeting Letter (USA)
Tanka Journal (Japan)
Modern Enlish Tanka (on line version)
Simply Haiku (on line)
Tanka Splendor 2006 (on line)
PRESENTATIONS
Invitation to Tanka. Workshop presented at the Haiku Canada Weekend at McGill University, Montreal, QC. 2010 (May).

Invitation to Tanka and Gusts (Canada's First Tanka Journal) Paper (in English) presented at the 4th Haiku Pacific Rim Conference, Terrigal, Australia. 2009 (Sept).
 
Tanka of Shuji Terayama. Paper (in English) presented at the Haiku Canada Weekend, Carleton University, Ottawa. 2007 (May).
photo: William J. Higginson

Syllables in English Tanka. Paper (in English) presented at the Haiku Canada Conference, University of British Columba, Vancouver, BC. 2006 (May).

Problems of Translating Tanka into English. Joint paper (English and Japanese) with A. Fielden at the IJET-16 (the 16th International Japanese/English Translation Conference), Chicago, IL. 2005 (June).

Onomatopoeia and Translation of Tanka into English. Paper (in English) presented at the annual conference of the JSAC (Japan Studies Association of Canada), University of Victoria, BC. 2004 (Oct).

Translation of tanka poems: Syllables in English and Japanese. Paper (in English) presented at the annual conference of the JSAC (Japan Studies Association of Canada), McMaster University, Hamilton, ON. 2003 (Oct).

Translation of tanka: Present problems and suggestions for the future. Paper (in Japanese) presented at the annual conference of the CAJLE (Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education), University of Calgary, ON. 2003 (Aug).

Syllables in English Tanka Poems. Paper (in English) presented at the ASPAC (Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast) AAS Regional Conference, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. 2002 (June).

MEMBERSHIPS
Haiku Canada
Japan Tanka Poets' Society (Nihon Kajin Club)
Kokoro no Hana
Tanka Canada -- Co-founder & editor of its English tanka journal GUSTS (2005--)
Tanka Society of America

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