Poems of Masayo Koike, Shuntaro Tanikawa & Rin Ishigaki Translated from the Burmese and

Translated from the Burmese and introduced by Violet Cho & David Gilbert

Worked as broadcaster for Radio Australia and an Information Technology business system analyst in Telstra and IBM

ranging from the extended sequence Persephone at 40 to a piercing series of poems about the death of White’s mother

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His first collection of poetry was published in spring 2012

Poems of Masayo Koike, Shuntaro Tanikawa & Rin Ishigaki Translated from the Burmese andThis first volume in Vagabonds Asia Pacific Poetry Series brings together a selection of poetry from three key contemporary Japanese poets Masayo Koike, Shuntaro Tanikawa & Rin Ishigaki translated by Leith Morton and introduced by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, with cover art by Ikumi Nakaya. Masayo Koike was born in Tokyo in 1959 and graduated from the International Relations Department of Tsuda Juku College in Tokyo. Her first published book of verse was Mizu