As part of the Heritage Festival, Imagine, Limestone Tanka Poets will read tanka inspired by Canberra’s natural heritage. Traditionally the contents of a tanka were confined to love, loss and longing. However, Modern English Tanka reimagines this traditional approach, and embraces more up-to-the-minute and cutting edge range of topics. An example of this, by Canberra poet, Carmel Summers:
epicormic shoots
that slow creep of green
hides tortured limbs ---
masks we wear
when our world is not well
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Join Limestone Tanka Poets for an afternoon among the trees in Glebe Park to enjoy the wide variety of up-to-date subjects embraced in this ancient genre. BYO folding chair.
