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1 y separately published work icon For Instance, Sweetheart : Forty Years of Love Songs Yuko Kawano , Nagata Kazuhiro , Amelia Fielden (translator), Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2017 11085884 2017 selected work poetry essay autobiography

'Autobiographical essays and tanka poetry written by Kawano Yuko and Nagata Kazuhiro to each other.'

'An extraordinary love story unfolds in these pages, more than forty years of a wife and husband balancing the reality of being in relationship with the truth of each their 'own-being' through the exacting discipline of tanka poetry. Day by day, they observed and concentrated their ever-shifting emotions into five-line capsules. It is not a fairy tale; all sides of love find expression here, including its loneliness, uncertainty and ephemerality even after decades of marriage.

'This record proves there is no 'ordinary' in the everyday of human life, not when it is borne witness to by poets with wide-open, honest hearts'

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1 1 y separately published work icon My Tanka Diary Hizuke No Aru Uta Yuko Kawano , ( trans. Amelia Fielden )expression Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2006 Z1293011 2006 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon As Things Are : 100 Tanka Poems from 10 Collections Yuko Kawano , ( trans. Amelia Fielden et. al. )agent)expression Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2005 Z1251326 2005 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon Fountains Play [and] Time Passes Amelia Fielden , Yuko Kawano , Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2002 Z986244 2002 anthology poetry
1 Time Passes Yuko Kawano , 2002 selected work poetry
— Appears in: Fountains Play [and] Time Passes 2002;
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