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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Straggling into Winter : A Tanka Journal
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'Highly Commended, IP Picks National Competition for Unpublished Manuscripts, 2007: Best Poetry. Taking the form of a year-long tanka journal, Kathy Kituai’s collection of poems steers the reader through joyful and sorrowful meditations on her life between two winters. ‘If not challenged, I am most uncomfortable as a poet,’ says Kituai, who, in the ancient Japanese poetry form, has found a medium which both challenges her and allows her to dovetail observations of beloved natural surrounds with emotional journeys. The journal that emerges is drenched in a deep love of nature, and imbued with a searching, insightful sense of the human condition.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: In memory of Rose-Mary Slade Swan

Contents

* Contents derived from the Carindale, Camp Hill - Carina area, Brisbane - South East, Brisbane, Queensland,:Interactive Press , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
7th June 05i"news that the cancer", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 5)
June, Kathy Kituai , sequence poetry (p. 5-10)
8th June 05i"a thought I hold close", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
9th June 05i"going up the stairs", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 6-7)
11th June 05i"burning this morning", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 7)
12th June 05i"strumming on the roof", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 7)
17th June 05i"I can't give my hand", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
18th June 05i"when she says", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 8-9)
21st June 05i"strands of wool", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 9)
25th June 05i"sitting side by side", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
26th June 05i"mid conversation", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 10)
1st July 05i"Canberra", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 11)
2nd July 05i"rain on the windscreen", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 11)
July, Kathy Kituai , sequence poetry (p. 11-12)
4th July 05i"shadows of my hand", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 12)
5th July 05i"head bowed hands folded", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 12)
1st August 05i"on arrival", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 13)
9th August 05i"knowing that it's", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 13)
20th August 05i"more wattles", Kathy Kituai , single work poetry (p. 13)
August, Kathy Kituai , sequence poetry (p. 13-17)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Two Versatile Collections Show the Potential of Poetry Lisa Gorton , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 April 2008; (p. 17)

— Review of Straggling into Winter : A Tanka Journal Kathy Kituai , 2007 selected work poetry ; Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish Hal Judge , 2007 selected work poetry
How Poets Work : Beyond Cathartic Writing in Journals Kathy Kituai , 2007-2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Five Bells , Summer vol. 15 no. 1 2007-2008; (p. 31-33)
Two Versatile Collections Show the Potential of Poetry Lisa Gorton , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 April 2008; (p. 17)

— Review of Straggling into Winter : A Tanka Journal Kathy Kituai , 2007 selected work poetry ; Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish Hal Judge , 2007 selected work poetry
How Poets Work : Beyond Cathartic Writing in Journals Kathy Kituai , 2007-2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Five Bells , Summer vol. 15 no. 1 2007-2008; (p. 31-33)

Awards

2007 highly commended IP Picks Award Best Poetry
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