Landfall: Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka Published by Modern English Tanka Press
Modern English Tanka Press is pleased to announce the publication of Landfall: Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka. This third in a series of tanka poetry anthologies by the editorial team of Denis M. Garrison & Michael McClintock focuses on pastoral poems from all around the world. Six hundred poems by poets from the US, Canada, the UK, India, Thailand, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand are included in the anthology. Landfall breaks new ground in the English lyric tradition.
Baltimore, Maryland – September 14, 2007 – Landfall: Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka, edited by Denis M. Garrison and Michael McClintock, has been published in both hard cover and trade paperback editions by Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Maryland. This is the third in a series of tanka poetry anthologies from these editors. It is about the lands we live in, the highlands and the lowlands, prairies and forests, deserts and wetlands, farmlands and wilderness, the vast continental interiors and the lands bordering the seas, and the waters of the earth. As such, it is inevitably a book about ourselves. Every generation makes anew its own landfall, discovering for itself its special, abiding relationship to the natural world. With these fine tanka, 600 pastoral poems of a new kind for a new day, the greatly prized moment of making landfall becomes, also, an irrevocable moment of personal epiphany. Poets included are from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Thailand, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
The editors of Landfall and its soon to be released companion anthology, Streetlights, have previously published two related anthologies dealing with sets and sequences of tanka poems: The Five-Hole Flute and The Dreaming Room. These new wave tanka anthologies are breaking new ground in English short verse at the same time that they are carrying forward the oldest continuous poetic tradition on earth, that of waka/tanka. All these anthologies are published by Modern English Tanka Press.
For media inquiries or to arrange interviews, contact the publisher by e-mail at dmg (at) tankapress (dot) com. Publisher information at: www.modernenglishtankapress.com.
This book is available from http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and from major booksellers; or from the publisher. Complete information and mail order form are available online at www.modernenglishtankapress.com.
Price: $27.95 USD. ISBN 978-0-6151-6264-5. Trade paperback. 240 pages, 6.00" x 9.00", perfect binding, black and white interior ink, full-color exterior ink. The hard cover edition, with no ISBN, is available only at http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and priced at only $29.95 USD.
About Modern English Tanka Press:
Modern English Tanka Press is an independent equity publishing house in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to producing books and periodicals of lasting literary value. Our publications are produced using modern print-on-demand production and distribution methods. We publish the journals “Modern English Tanka” and “Atlas Poetica” and books of tanka, haiku, and other fine verse. We operate www.TankaCentral.com with its popular “Tanka News” blog, and the poetry web hub, www.ShortVerse.com.
Contact:
Denis M. Garrison, owner
Modern English Tanka Press
443-802-1249
Email to dmg@tankapress.com.
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