Description
A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry.
The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan’s new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection.
Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan.
The Skies Above My Eyes 
Lotus Gatherers 
Counting Backwards 
Postman Bear 
Ten Poems by The Romantics 
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve 
Reading George Szirtes 
Comic Poems 
The Tale of Custard the Dragon 
Then What 
Spiritlands 
On the Border 
Classical Women Poets 
Under Clouded Skies & Beauregard: Pens?es sous les nuages & Beauregard (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 5) 
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land