One Man’s Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume One 2014
“A tanka is snowflakes drifting through the ink dark moon” – Chen-ou Liu
Australian tanka poets included in this new online anthology include: Beverley George, Amelia Fielden, Marilyn Humbert, Keitha Keyes and Merle Connolly.
"One Man’s Maple Moon" can be accessed through this link:
http://issuu.com/neverendingstoryhaikutanka/docs/one_man_s_maple_moon_volume_one_201
Beverley George, New South Wales
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A note from Chen-ou:
Dear Contributors and Readers,
I am pleased to announce that “One Man’s Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume One 2014” is now available for your reading pleasure.
(Note: I’ve revised some Chinese translations. For those whose tanka are included in the anthology, each will receive a copy of its e-book edition shortly.)
This book is dedicated to Li Bai (701-762), also known as Li Po.
First stanza of “Drinking Alone by Moonlight”:
A cup of wine, under the flowering trees;
I drink alone, for no friend is near.
Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon,
For he, with my shadow, will make three men.