Deceptively simple, the poems in All You Need Is Love touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, enlightenment and illusion, love and loneliness. This anthology of tanka reflects the full spectrum of what it means to love, whether it be a partner, a child, a family member, friends, places or one's pet. - Patricia Prime, editor of Kokako, New Zealand journal of haiku and tanka Amelia Fielden, a well-known poet and translator of Japanese literature, has compiled an eclectic tanka anthology, featuring over 60 of her fellow Australian writers. All You Need is...
Deceptively simple, the poems in All You Need Is Love touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, enlightenment and...
"An extraordinary love story unfolds in these pages, more than forty years of a wife and husband balancing the reality of being in relationship with the truth of each their ‘own-being’ through the exacting discipline of tanka poetry. Day by day, they observed and concentrated their ever-shifting emotions into five-line capsules. It is not a fairy tale; all sides of love find expression here, including its loneliness, uncertainty and ephemerality even after decades of marriage. This record proves there is no ‘ordinary’ in the everyday of human life, not when it is...
"An extraordinary love story unfolds in these pages, more than forty years of a wife and husband balancing the reality of being in relationship wit...
