Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, with this inaugural issue, establishes itself as the first and only periodical devoted exclusively to these two mixed prose-and-verse genres. Haibun and tanka prose belong to the ancient and venerable tradition of Japanese poetry and belles-lettres. Their practice has waned in modern Japan but, with the continuing popularity of their respective parent-forms, haiku and tanka, in the West, haibun and tanka prose are experiencing unprecedented growth and diverse experimentation from New York to London, from Berlin to Brisbane, and in small towns and open countryside around the globe. Haibun and tanka prose are busily revising the general literary map and, in doing so, quietly reforming haiku and tanka also. Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, a biannual journal, faithfully represents the full range of styles and themes adopted by contemporary practitioners and intends to play a vanguard role in charting the rapid evolution of these genres.

Among 55 contributors from ten countries, poets from Australia and New Zealand include Dawn Bruce, Owen Bullock, Ashley Capes, Emma Dalloway, Amelia Fielden, Jeffrey Harpeng, Mary Mageau, Joanna Preston, Patricia Prime, Duncan Richardson, Ynes Sanz and André Surridge.

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http://www.themetpress.com/modernhaibunandtankaprose/masthead.html

For more information, contact the editor, Jeffrey Woodward, at [email protected]