Typhoon Etiquette

Katrina Naomi

• Publisher: Verve Poetry Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781912565207
• eBook ISBN: 9781912565771
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Verve Poetry Press are thrilled that the wonderful Katrina Naomi has asked us to publish the poems that came out of her recent Arts Council supported writing trip to Japan. And a wonderful group of poems they are, that at once depict Japan, its traditions, its customs with great enthusiasm but also a healthy dose of heart-on-sleave puzzlement. Katrina doesn't pretend she is an expert. She is very much an English poet abroad.

Also included are Katrina's translations of Haiku by two Japanese masters which have previously been published in MPT magazine. Altogether, this is Katrina trying something new, but with the quality, the wonderful way with words, the earnest grappling with the perceived world that characterises all her work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Typhoon Etiquette
• Today I Saw Mount Fuji
• Self-Introduction
• I Believe in Gender Equality
• On Trying to Write in Matsumisho, a Place Bashô Found Impossible to Write About Because of its Beauty
• Greetings from Yamanashi
• In a Plum Grove
• Typhoon Etiquette
• Tanka for Hiroshi
• Versions of Yasuaki Inoue’s Haiku
• In the Room Specifically for Resting at the Tokyo National Museum
• First Tea Ceremony
• And Today There’s a Risk of Bears on the Path
• Five O’Clock Tanka
• Versions of Dakotsu Iida’s Haiku
• Interpretation
• Whoever Said the British Invented the Queue Had Never Been to Japan
• Where Only the Gods May Walk
• Michiyo Plays the Koto
• What Arrival Feels Like
• Notes
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR