37 posts tagged “nc tate”

Forthcoming

Among the books currently being thought about, written, abandoned, ready to be sent, recently posted, waiting to be read by publishers, rejected by publishers, accepted by publishers, burnt, set in type, en route to bookshops, already displayed and now being wrapped are: Tatami Days; The Wounded Bow; Blossom and Banzai, Sword and Sex; Junko and Me; Torn Shoji (a collection of poems); How To Get Promoted While Teaching in a Japanese University; Shoes Off, Men First; Last Train From Ueno (a detective novel); The Japanese In-Laws: A Survivor's Guide; In The Raw; Cold Oden in The Rain (more poems); The Paved River Beds of Akita - a commentary in photographs.

—NC Tate

I did enjoy Julian's thing on jazz taxis. Only in Japan. Isn't Hibari Misora the famous enka singer? . . . That reminded me of the first verse of a poem I wrote, when I did that quite a lot, while M was pregnant and on for a while after.

     Because the decided-upon day is here
     the rainy season can now begin
     to rain seasonally
     all over the area it's supposed to,
     making green greener and concrete grey.

—NC Tate