Tanka Online
Event WebsiteLed by Lead Tutor Alan Summers, this course, looking at the five-line Japanese poetry form tanka is suitable for those looking to begin or to build their tanka experience. The course includes an optional exercise process to help with your tanka structure and content, but more confident writers can work directly with the prompts for new work. If you already write longform poetry, then tanka is a good introduction to the Japanese forms, as there is room for a little more lyricism here than there is in haiku. Prompts are accessed online and course feedback is sent by email, with participants reading Alan’s commentary on each others’ poems as well as their own in a group learning process.
Participants submit two poems three times over each course (total 6 poems per course) and can also add a couple of rewritten poems for final comments during that time.
Please note this course is run Asynchronously (not live).
9 Feb 2023 to 6 April 2023 (4-5pm)
