Bibliography of English-Language Tanka, Version 2.1.1

Including Periodicals

Compiled by M. Kei

Updated 10 August 2007

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Bibliography of English-Language Tanka, Version 2.1.1

Compiled by M. Kei, 2006-2007

Revised 10 August 2007

With this edition the name has been changed to reflect in the inclusion of major periodicals which publish or have published tanka as listed in 'Tanka Venues' by TankaCentral.com, plus a few other periodicals this compiler believes are significant compendiums of tanka literature. This version incorporates the standard abbreviations adopted by the Tanka Society of America to aid in the citation of works. In addition, I have begun annotating entries with regards to what type they are, eg, sound recording, broadside, journal, etc. Unlabeled entries are presumed to be books or chapbooks. The number of items included in the listing is now around six hundred titles.

Periodicals are listed only once, in the year they were founded. The total body of English-Language tanka periodical publication numbers over six hundred issues. Issue level information can be found in the companion bibliography, the Bibliography of English-Language Tanka Periodical Literature, by the same author.

Please note, this is an incomplete listing. I searched existing bibliographies, poet biographies, library catalogs, university archives, journals, international booksellers, recommended reading lists, small press catalogs and websites, the Haiku Archive, the Library of Congress, tanka organizations, and queried many poets. I reviewed materials principally in English, but also French and Spanish, as well as some German, Dutch, Romanian, Croatian, and other international sources, but searches in languages other than English were not exhaustive.

I included any book containing a 'significant' amount of tanka, the number being arbitrarily drawn at six or more tanka or a tanka sequence of any length. I excluded Japanese books in English translation, unless they were bilingual or were translations of works by Western poets who published in Japanese, or were by Japanese poets in the West. For the period of the late 1800s to the early 1900s, attempting to discover when and how works became available in English is particularly tricky; did Kuki Shuzo publish his various 'Paris' tanka in Japanese-only, or in bilingual editions? More recently, a number of Japanese poets have been published in English in Japan, but it is impossible to know if they wrote in English or were translated, or whether the English-language version constitutes the first appearance.

I excluded renga/renku unless the works also contained tanka, tanka sequences, or linked tanka. Often catalog listings, reviews, and other resources were incomplete, so I erred on the side of inclusion. However, there are dozens of books and chapbooks for which I have so little information I could not even guess whether they contain tanka. They were not included. Some publications failed to give even basic bibliographic information such as the date and location where they were published.

This revision is the first to omit a few entries that had previously appeared; specifically, Yamakai I and II are now known to have been Japanese-only anthologies. Several other titles have been omitted as well, either because they have been found to have less than the threshold amount of tanka, or have turned out to be Japanese tanka in translation which does not meet the criteria listed above. A bibliography of Japanese works in translation and their critical scholarship would easily number in the thousands, and that is a task this compiler is not willing to undertake.

In addition, numerous corrections of typos, spelling errors, titles, subtitles, authorship, dates, places, publishers, etc, have been made. As always, the reader should remember that this is a work in progress, and should verify any critical piece of information himself. I welcome additions and corrections at: kukaju (at) verizon (dot) net, or via snail mail at: M. Kei, P O Box 1118, Elkton, MD 21922-1118.

Adams, Anne Marie. The essence of li : a spiritual journey into the nature of being : expressed in haiku and tanka forms of poetry. Kearney, NB: Morris Pub, 2003

ai li. Another Collection for Sharing: Haiku and Tanka. UK: n. p., 2002 <aili.co.uk> [web collection]

Aikins, Suzanne. Tanka : five line poems. Prsopect, NS: Prospect Press, 1995

an'ya. moon moths : tanka. Crescent, OR: Natal Light Press, 2006

an'ya. moonstruck. Crescent, OR: Natal Light Press, 2006

Anderson, Kay, & Paul M & Earl D Johnson & Michael McClintock & Fay Aoyagi & Rich Krivcher. Two autumns 13th annual reading, Haiku Poets of Northern California. San Francisco, CA: Cloud House Poetry Archives, SF PoetMuseum, 2002 [video recording]

Aikins, Suezan. Opening -- Poems of Parting. Prospect, NB: Prospect Press, 1999

Akins, Terese. Tomkin tanka and haiku. London, UK: Baskerville Press, 1976

Alcock, John; Don Barnard; Martin Underwood, eds. Cannon Poets 21st Year Tanka Competion : Broadside X. Harborne, Birmingham, UK: Cannon Poets, 2004

Alishan, Leonardo. Through a Dewdrop: A Collection of Haiku, Senryu and Tanka. Glendale, CA: Open Letter Journal, 2000

Amatatsu, Tadao. The song of a prisoner: Waka (31 syllable Japanese poems). Mrs. Amatatsu, trans. n. p., 1964

American Tanka. Maffei, Laura, ed. [AMTK] New York, NY, 1996 - [journal]

an'ya. Haiku & Tanka Accordion Book. Etsy, 2006

an'ya. Moonstruck. Crescent, OR: Natal Light Press, 2006

Anderson, John Monroe. A man's gift from the sea: learning to let go. Editing and tanka poetry by Kay F. Anderson. Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing, c 2000

Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society. [AJTS] York, UK, 2005 - [web collection]

Ankenbrand, Frank, Jr. Haiku and Tanka. Illustrations by Don Blanding and Edythe Hope Genee. Los Angeles, CA: Swordsman Publishing Co., 1963

Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka. M. Kei, editor. Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2007 - [journal]

Bailey, Alicia. Tanka Box. Lake City, CO: Raven Press, 2001

Ball, Jerry. Hidden Under the Rug : Haiku, Senryu, and a Tanka or Two. Seal Beach, CA: n. p., 1998

bare bones journal. Tasker, Brian, ed. UK, 1992 - 1995 [journal]

Barnes, Mary Jane. Images : a collection of haiku, senryu, tanka, cinquain, quatrain, lanterne, and other short lyrics, both free verse and patterned. Brentwood, CA: M.J. Barnes, 1988

Barnes, Mary Jane. Images : (a collection of haiku, senryu, tanka, cinquain, quatrain, lanterne, and other short lyrics, both free verse and patterned). Bangkok, Thailand: Amarin Printing Co, 1988

Baranosky, Edward. The Doryman. Newport, RI & Toronto, ONT: EAB Publishing, 2001

Baranosky, Edward. Eye of the storm. Toronto, ONT, 1998

Baranosky, Edward. Eye of the storm. Toronto, ONT, 1998 [audio recording]

Baranosky, Edward. Ghostdancing. Toronto, ONT: n. p., 1997

Barnosky, Edward. Purgatory gorge and other poems. Toronto, ONT: EAB Publishing, 1999

Baranosky, Edward. Raindancing. Toronto, ONT: EAB Publishing, 1999

Barnosky, Edward. Raku: poetry chapbook. Toronto, ONT: Edward Barnosky, Publisher, 2002

Barnosky, Edward, ed. Spindrift. Toronto, ONT: EAB Publishing, 2000

Barnosky, Edward. Wazoski Himself and Other Poems. EAB Publishing, 2006

Baranosky, Edward. Windbirds. Toronto, ONT: n. p., 2002 ?

Barlow, John. Snow about to Fall. Liverpool, UK: Snapshot Press, 2006

Batchelor, Rhonda. And roll from me like water : the erotic tanka suite. Lantzville, BC: Leaf Press, 2006

Bazzano, Manu, ed. Zen Poems. London, UK: MQ Publications, 2002

Bean, Ida Henrietta. Tanka. London, UK: F. T. Neely, 1899

The Best of Bamboo Ridge Poetry. Honolulu, HI: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1991 [audio recording]

Better, Cathy Drinkwater, ed. To Find the Moon : TSA Members Anthology 2004. [TSAM] Eldersburg, MD: Black Cat Press, 2005

Beyer, Tony. Isthmus. New Zealand: Puriri Press, 2004

black bough. Charles Easter & Kevin Walker, eds. Somerville, NJ, 1993 - 2000 [journal]

Blair, Jayne. Perfume : The Poetry Chapbooks Collection, 25 Years. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corporation, 2003

Blanding, Don; & Edythe Hope Genée. Haiku and tanka. Los Angeles, CA: Swordsman Pub. Co., c1964

Blankenship, Gary. A River Transformed : Wang Wei’s River Wang Poems as Inspiration. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Enterprises, 2005

Bluger, Marianne. Early Evening Pieces. Canada: BuschekBooks, 2003

Bluger, Marianne. Gusts. Canada: Penumbra Press, 1998

Bluger, Marianne. Nude with Scar. Canada: Penumbra Press, 2006

Bluger, Marianne. Scissor, Paper, Woman. Manotick, ONT: Penumbra Press, 2000

Bluger, Marianne. Zen Mercies / Small Satoris. Manotick, ONT: Penumbra Press, 2005

Boldman, Bob. My Lord’s Necklace. Bellingham, WA: Portals Press, 1980

Borges, Jorge Luis. Tigers of Gold / Tigres de Oro. Alestair Reid, trans. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975 [Buenos Aires, 1973]

Bostok, Janice. Dimmed the Mystery. Liverpool, UK: Snapshot Press, 2000

Bostok, Janice. Reaching Out from Dreaming. AUS: n. p., 2001

Bostok, Janice. Songs Once Sung. Brisbane, AUS: Post Pressed, 2003

Bostok, Janice. Walking into the Sun: Haiku and Tanka. Milwaukee, WI: Shelters Press, 1974

Bostok, Janice, et al, eds. Paper Wasp. [PAPW] Chapel Hill, AUS, c1998 - [journal]

bottle rockets. [BTLR] Forrester, Stanford, ed. Windsor, CT: bottle rockets press, 1999 - [journal]

Bowes, Harold. If nothing else. Edmonds, WA: Ravenna Press, 2004

Blithe Spirit. [BLTH] London, UK: British Haiku Society, c 1990 - [journal]

Brooks, Randy. Black Ant's Journey to Japan : A Modern Tanka Journal. Gualala, CA: AHA Books, 1998 <http://ahapoetry.com/blackant.htm>

Brooks, Randy. Crows Talking Crow. Foster City, CA: Press Here, 1999

Buckaway, Catherine M. Tanka : The Lavender Nightingale. Toronto, ONT: Peppermint Press, 1978

Buckaway, Catherine Margaret. The Silver Cuckoo : Poems in Japanese Verse Forms: Haiku, Tanka. 1975

Buettner Marjorie. In the Living Season. Belgium: TempLibres, 2002 <http://TempLibres.com> [web collection]

Burns, Margaret S. Tongue. Winters, CA: Ladies Bench Press, 2002

Burns, Roderick. The Salesman's Shoes. Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2007

Butler, Lanzi. Gates of Guilford : Selected Poems and Photographs. Guilford, CT: n. p., 2005

Camp, Trevor. Tanka Walks. Ancaster, ONT: Ancaster Small Press, 2005 [miniature book]

Carrow, Devries. An Alphabet Book of Haiku and Tanka. Oakland, CA: Cartwright's Oldtime Print Shop, 1973

Carter, Terry Ann, Claudia Radmore, Grant D. Savage, eds. Invisible Tea : Haiku and Tanka. Ottawa, ONT: Kado Ottawa, 2006 [In honor of Marianne Bluger.]

Casser, Theodore. The Office Garden. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Enterprises, 2003

Cathcart, Guillermo Compte, ed. Tanka of the Local Village: Wooden Book. Longchamps, Argentina: n. p., 2001 [wooden book]

Cekolj, Marijan. U srcu tisine / In The Heart of Silence. Croatia: Hrvatsko haiku drustvo, 1996

Cekolj, Marijan, ed. Dah vjecnosti: 1990-2000: waka poezija: izbor / Breath of eternity: 1990-2000: waka poetry: selection (Croatian haiku poets). Croatia: Hrvatsko haiku drustvo, 2000

Chang, JoAnn. Magpie : A Collection of American Tankas. Shorewood, WI: Hodge Podge Press, 1997

Chang, Juliana, ed. Quiet Fire : A Historical Anthology of Asian American Poetry, 1892 - 1970. New York: Asian American Writers Workshop, 1996

Chula, Margaret. Always filling, always full : tanka poems. New York: White Pine Press, 2001

Clausen, Tom. Homework. Liverpool, UK: Snapshot Press, 2000

Clausen, Tom. A Work of Love. Enfield, CT: Tiny Poems Press, 1997

Clausen, Tom. Growing Late. Liverpool, UK: Snapshot Press, 2006

Coffey, Anne. Japanese Verse Forms : Haiku, Tanka, Renga. Little Neston: Cherrybite, 1998

Conforti, Gerard John. For My Brother Victor & His Wife Elsa. Gualala, CA: AHA Books, 2000 <AHApoetry.com> [web collection]

Conforti, Gerard John. Now That Night Ends. Gualala, CA: AHA Books & Chant Press, 1996

Conforti, Gerard John. Spirits Of The Wind : Tanka. Gualala, CA: AHA Books, 2002

Cooper, Victoria Ann. Deep Plowing the Fields of Heaven : A Collection of Haiku, Tanka, and Choka Poetry. Harrodsburg, KY: CWR Pub., 1993

Cox, Mary Eleanor. Golden Chrysanthemums (A Collection of Haiku and Tanka). Los Angeles, CA: The Swordsman Pub. Co., 1984

Crapsey, Adelaide. Verse by Adelaide Crapsey. New York, NY: Kessinger Publishing, 2004 [1915]

Graven, John. The Tanka Psalter. Honolulu, HI: Common Heritage Enterprises, 2005 <http://www.aloha.com/~craven/psalter.html> [web collection]

D'Arpajon, Noel, ed. Tankas (Contemporary poets of Dorrance). Dorrance, 1948

Daniel, Geoffrey. Gripping the Perch. Liverpool, UK: Snapshot Press, 1998

Dargomyzhski, Aleksandr Sergeevich; & Max T Krone Vanka 'n' Tanka : humorous love song. New York, NY : M. Witmark, 1933 [musical score]

Davenport, Ronald M. Ribbons around the Heart (Tanka Poetry). Frederick, MD: PublishAmerica, 2006

Davies, Karen. Poeternitry. Lincoln, NE: Writers Club Press, 2002

Day, Cherie Hunter. Early Indigo. Liverpool, UK: Snapshot Press, 2000

Day, Cherie Hunter. Sun Moon Mother Father. Portland, OR: Sundog Press, 1997

Decker, Kathleen P. Russian Reverie. Redmond, WA: Laughing Cypress, 2000

Decker, Kathleen P., ed. My Neighbor's Life. Redmond, WA: Laughing Cypress, 1999

Dees, Deidra Suwanee. Vision Lines : Native American Decolonizing Literature, Poems and Prose Pieces. Minneapolis, MN: TA Publications, 2006 ?

Destiny, Nancy Lee. Down to the Bones : New Age Poetry, Haiku, and Tanka. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Enterprises, 2004

Devi, Radhika. Mirror of the Mind and Other Poems (A Humble Offering to Srila Prabhupada). Vrindavana U. P., India: Parrot Press, 2002

Devi, Radhika. Under the Rose Haiku / Tanka. Sri Kunja, Syarol, District Aligahr, U. P., India: Parrot Press, 2001

dew online. ai li, ed. London, UK, 2002 [web journal]

Dixon, Melissa. Slow Spring Water. Victoria, BC: Slowspringpress, 2006

Drew, Brad. Haiku, tanka, & other easy pieces for unaccompanied waking. London, UK: Brad Drew, 1977

DuBois, Jean, & Sara Teasdale.. The Same Sweet Yellow. Las Vegas, NM: San Miguel, 1994

Duchambge, Pauline, & Susan C. Cook & Judy S. Tsou. Anthology of Songs (Women Composers Series). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1988 [musical score]

Durkee, Arthur. Sex : homoerotic haiku, tanka & renga. Cambridge, WI: Black Dragon Productions, 1995

Dyck, Marje A. A Piece of the Moon. Saskatoon, SK: Calisto Press, 2005

East meets West: oriental forms of poetry writing : haiku, sijo, tanka: grades 4 to 12. Ancaster, ONT: Don't Panic Production, c 1990

Eastlund, Madelyn. Garden thoughts. s.l. s.n.

Eastlund, Madelyn. Tanka in a Teacup. Beverly Hills, FL: Verdure, 1995 [textbook]

Ediger, Marlow. Middle School Pupils Write Tankas. US: Department of Education, 1993 [juvenile]

Elaine, Rachel. Thoughts for Thought II : More Ponderings and Poems for Thought. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2006

Elliott, David. Wind in the Trees. Gualala, CA: AHA Books, 1992

Emrich, Jeanne. Pleiades at Dawn: A Tanka Collection. Eldersburg, MD: Black Cat Press, 2006

Emrich, Jeanne, & Cathy Drinkwater Better, eds. Something Like a Sigh : The Tanka Society of America's 2005 Member Anthology. [TSAM] Eldersburg, VA: Black Cat Press, 2006

England, Gerald, ed. The Art of Haiku : Guide to Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, Haibun, Renga, Sedoka, Sijo and Related Genres. Cheshire, UK: New Hope International, 2000

English Tanka & Haiku on Water, River, Lake and Sea. Gifu, JP: Japan Society on Water Environment, 2001

Eucalypt. [EUCL] George, Beverley, ed. Pearl Beach, AUS, 2007 - [journal]

Fainlight, Ruth. Winter tanka. London, UK: Turret Book, 1979

Fegan, Nancy. Whispers of Yesterday. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Enterprises, 2005

Fielden, Amelia. Baubles, Bangles and Beads : Threaded Tanka. Charnwood, AUS: Ginninderra Press, 2007

Fielden, Amelia. Eucalypts and Iris Streams. AUS: Ginnindera Press, 2002

Fielden, Amelia. Short Songs. AUS: Ginninderra Press, 2003

Fielden, Amelia. Still Swimming. AUS: Ginninderra Press, 2005

Fielden, Amelia & Yuko Kawano. Fountains Play & Time Passes : An Anthology of Tanka in English and Japanese. Amelia Fielden & Saeko Ogi, trans. Canberra, AUS: Ginninderra Press, 2002

Fitzgerald, Lawrence. Rain in Her Voice. Decatur, IL: Brooks Books, 1978

Five Lines Down. [FVLD] Goldstein, Sanford, & Kenneth Tanemura. eds. Redwood City, CA: 1994-1996 [journal]

Flowers, Ruby. A walk in the garden and other poems. Tulsa, OK: Parker Pub. Co., 1976

Foster, Jewell and Rhoda de Long Jewell, eds. Janus and SCTH (Sonnet Cinquain Tanka Haiku) [SCTH] Sangre de Cristo, NM: Sangre de Cristo Press, c1966 - c1977 [journal]

Frankovich, Nicholas; David Larzele, eds. The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1999 [index]

Frogpond : The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. New York, NY: Haiku Society of America, Inc., 1978 - [journal]

Fry, Stephen. The ode less travelled : unlocking the poet within. New York, NY: Gotham Books, 2006

Fujita, Jun. Tanka: Poems in Exile. Chicago, IL: Covici-McGee Co., 1923

Gallagher, Francis. 100 haiku & tanka. n. p., no date

Gallagher, Francis. 300 haiku & tanka. Somerton: Headlock Press, 1998

Garrison, Denis M. Collected Poems, 1972 - 2006. Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2007 [Private edition]

Garrison, Denis M., ed. Haiku Harvest : 2000 - 2006. [HHRV] Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2007 [anthology]

Garrison, Denis M., ed. Five Lines Down : A Landmark in English Tanka. Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2007

Garrison, Denis M., ed. Tanka Teachers Guide. Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2007

Garrison, Denis M., webmaster. TankaCentral.com, 2006 - [website]

Garrison, Denis M. & Michael McClintock, eds. Modern English Tanka. [MET] Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2006 - [journal]

Garrison, Denis M. & Michael McClintock, eds. The Five-Hole Flute: Modern English Tanka in Sets and Sequences. [FHFL] Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2006

Garrison, Denis M. & Michael McClintock, eds. Landfall : Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka. [LNFL] Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2007

Gatten, Aileen & Anthony Hood Chambers, eds. New Leaves : Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Edward Seidensticker. Michigan Monographs in Japanese, 11. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1993

Gendrano, Victor. Rustle of bamboo leaves : selected haiku and other poems : featuring haiku, senryu, haibun, haiga, tanka, Korean sijo, American cinquain, and free verse. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Enterprises, 2005

George, Beverley. Empty Garden. Australia: Yellow Moon Press, 2006

George, Beverley, ed. Yellow Moon. [YLMN] Pearl Beach, AUS, 1997 - 2006 [journal]

Gibson, Robert. Children of the Sparrow : Haiku and Tanka. Seattle, WA: Holly House Publications, 1999

Gibson, Robert, & Karen Klein. Except perhaps in spring, in love poems. Seattle, WA: Holly House Publications, 2003

Gideon, Miriam. The seasons of time : based on Tanka poetry of ancient Japan. Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Joshua Corp., 1971 [musical score]

Gilevich, Nil. On the Flute of Solitude : Lyrical Miniatures the Genre of Tanka. Minsk, Belorus: Pro Christo Library, no date

Giddens, Leslie. Call of the Inland Sea : A Collection of Tanka, Haiku & Concrete Poetry. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Enterprises, 2005

Goldstein, Sanford. Encounters in This Penny World. Edmonton, AB: Inkling Press, 2005

Goldstein, Sanford. Gaijin Aesthetics. La Crosse, WI: Juniper Press, 1983

Goldstein, Sanford. At the Hut of the Small Mind. Gualala, CA: AHA Books, 1992

Goldstein, Sanford. Records of a Well-Polished Satchel : 14 Occasional Tanka. LaCrosse, WI: Juniper Press, 1995

Goldstein, Sanford. This Tanka Whirl. Coinjock, NC: Clinging Vine Press, 2001

Goldstein, Sanford. This Tanka World. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Poets Cooperative, 1977

Goldstein, Sanford, ed. Sixty Sunflowers : Tanka Society of America Member Anthology 2006 - 2007. [TSAM] Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka, 2007

Goldstein, Sanford, & Kenneth Tanemura. This Tanka World of Strings. Redwood, CA: n. p., 1995

Goring, Richard. Just These Few Stones : Haiku, Senryu and Tanka. Westcliff-on Sea, Essex, UK: Cat's Yawn Press, 1997