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The next couple of months I’m going to intersperse our haiku and senryu poetry podcasts with podcasts about tanka, because we’re going to have a go at writing them in November 2024.
Today I’m looking at the premodern period, so a poetry type known as waka, composed before the tanka reforms of the late 1800s. By the end of the podcast you should know a bit about the history of waka and see the development of the form in this pre tanka world. It’s starting to look like something we might just recognise in our contemporary works. Don’t worry if you don’t immediately get them, we’ll look at them again.
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Previous podcasts alluded to:
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Books I consulted for this episode:
Jane Reichhold, Writing and Enjoying Haiku A Hands on Guide
William J Higginson, The Haiku Seasons Poetry of the Natural World
Steven D Carter, How to read a Japanese Poem
Haruo Shirane, Early Modern Japanese Literature An Anthology 1600-1900
Other sources will be available in the essay that accompanies this podcast and others to follow.
