Online Workshop: 'Tadaima: I’ve come back!' with Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana
Mon 3 Feb 2025 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM GMT
Online, Zoom
Description
ただ今 Tadaima: I’ve come back!
Following on from 3 sell-out workshops on Japanese forms, this session will share Alex’s recent reencounter with her second home, Japan, and her discoveries about Japanese poetry.
This will be based upon interviews with scholars of the Tokyo poetry community, as well as her participation in The Japan Writers conference, where she delivered a presentation on the zuihitsu form.
The workshop will debunk myths around haiku, clarify how they are distinctive from tanka, revisit definition of zuihitsu, and share insights into the challenges of translating from Japanese to English. With generative prompts, a workbook and suggested reading.
Alex will reference discussions with translator Dr. Andrw Houwen, Associate Professor of Tokyo Woman’s University, as well as those with poets and translators Professor Masaya Saito, and Hideko Sueoka.
About Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana's collection, Sing me down from the dark (SALT; 2022), is in its 3rd issue. She lived in Japan for 10 years and specialises in Japanese forms. She is a PGCE-qualified teacher who worked at Newcastle University for 13 years and has taught poetry writing workshops for The Poetry Business, The Writing School and Oxford Poetry Library.
In 2024, she has poems published or forthcoming in The North, Spelt, English Review (Hodder Education), Newcastle University & NCLA Anthology, Anthropocene, The Madrid Review and The Interpreter's House (including zuihitsu, haibun, and poetry responding to Yoko Ono). She has been placed and shortlisted for the Winchester Prize, the Fish prize, Live Canon and The Troubadour prize, was third in the 2020 Oxford Brookes International Poetry competition, and longlisted for the 2023 National Poetry Prize. She has Masters degrees in Writing Poetry (Newcastle University) and in Japanese Language and Culture (Sheffield University).
Zoom
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Bursary Spaces
There are two bursary spaces available per workshop for writers from groups that are under-represented in contemporary poetry (for instance because of ethnic background) or who are experiencing financial hardship. If you would like to apply for one of these bursary places, please contact workshops@poetrybusiness.co.uk
Refunds
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