The Alchemy of Love: Tankaby Susan Burch High/Coo Chapbook Award 2024 ISBN 978-1-929820-31-3 perfectbound ~ ~ ~ This book is dedicated to: my husband, Bill, who has stuck by my side and loved me for 23 years. I can’t thank him enough for a wonderful life together and for inspiring these poems. Thank you Bill! Purple dragons unite! ~ Susan Burch ~ ~ ~
About the Author Since then she has placed in many tanka contests, coordinates the TSA contest, and features tanka writers on social media. Her ongoing goal is to promote the tanka form and to attract new readers and writers to tanka poetry. |
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Introduction Welcome to my world of love poems. This collection features tanka on romantic love, self-love, and love of nature, that I have written over the past 10 years. These poems are a departure from my everyday tanka and show a softer side of me I usually don’t share. And while they’re not as mysterious as the old court poems, I like to think of them as joining the waka tradition, going back to the roots of tanka, and giving them my own modern twist. a flamingo
Star Trek
for the days
a farmer
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Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following journals and publications in which some of these poems appeared: Take 5ive, March 2023 Linda Jeanette Ward Anthology, 2022 World Tanka Love Contest, July 2023 Frameless Sky, Nov/Dec 2020 HaikuKatha, October 2023 Bamboo Hut, December 2013 Take 5ive. December 2022 Ribbons, Tanka Hangout, 2024 Tanka Origins, March 2020 Gusts, Fall/Winter 2014 Switch, July 2017 Ribbons, Tanka Hangout, 2023 Ribbons, Tanka Café, 2021 Gusts, Fall/Winter 2022 Blithe Spirit, 2018 Scarlet Dragonfly, December 2022 Gusts, Spring/Summer 2020 HaikuKatha, January 2024 Time Haiku, 2023 Ribbons, Tanka Café, 2019 |
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