Books

a wine cup with base

haiku, senryu, tanka

“However gifted and accomplished a man may be, there is something lacking if he does not pursue the art of love. He is like a precious wine cup without a base.”

From Essays in idleness by Yoshida Kenkō, 1330—1332.

a wine cup with base by James Meredith

A collection of 120 haiku, senryu & tanka.

Published |August 2016 by Pen Points Press, Belfast.

Price: £6

Cover illustration by William Simpson.

burnt offering

James Meredith / Paulina Popa

burnt offering is a two poet collection by James Meredith (Ireland) & Paulina Popa (Romania). It was published in February 2016 by Emia, Romania in a bilingual (Romanian & English) hardback edition.

ISBN: 978-973-753-342-5

The collection includes 10 poems from each poet. James Meredith's poems are:

Sustenance (first published in ‘Lagan Press online: Poetry Originals’ Ireland)

Nesting (first published in ‘Lagan Press online: Poetry Originals’ Ireland)

Ghosts (first published in ‘Semne’ Romanian Literary Journal)

After the Harvest (first published in ‘Tellus,’ journal of the Classics Department of the University of Cambridge, England)

Autumn Landscapes (first published in ‘Abridged: 0-13: Mara, Ireland)

Reunion

Burnt Offering

Hopper Revisited

The Room

Rapture

Romanian translations were by Dr. Olimpia Iacob.

Cover of burnt offering from a photograph by John Baucher.

drawers of sand

Laurian Lodoabă / James Meredith

drawers of sand is a two poet collection by Laurian Lodoabă (Romania) & James Meredith (Ireland), published in July 2014 by Romanian publishing house Editura Timpul.

ISBN: 978-973-612-552-5

Alongside a selection of his haiku, senryu & tanka, the anthology features the following poems by James Meredith:

1,000 Hummingbirds (first published in ‘Speech Therapy’ Ireland)

All This Useless Information I Carry In My Head (first published in ‘Speech Therapy’ Ireland)

Community Relations (first published in ‘BT1: A New Poets Code’ Ireland)

Lilac (first published in ‘BT1: A New Poets Code’ Ireland)

Desirée (first published in ‘The Black Mountain Review’ Ireland)

Knocking On (first published in ’34th Parallel’ USA)

Insomnia (first published in ’34th Parallel’ USA)

Accepting Beauty Where You Find It (first published in ’34th Parallel’ USA)

Tanka after Akikio Yosano

Huitzilopochtli

Crisis

Redux

Discovery

What Remains (first published in ‘FourXFour Poetry Journal’ Ireland)

Marking Time (first published in ‘Century City’ Ireland)

Sunflowers (after William Blake) (first published in ‘City Smells: Anthology’ Edit Red Books, Europe)

Back to Basics (first published in ‘Ulla’s Nib’ Ireland)

The Simple Things (first published in ‘Ulla’s Nib’ Ireland)

Damaged (first published in ‘Ulla’s Nib’ Ireland)

Leda (first published in ‘Black & Blue’ UK)

Journey (first published in ‘Moment: Anthology’ Ireland)

Interlude (first published in ‘Abridged: 0-34: In Blue’ Ireland)

cutting the shadow of love...

James Meredith / Marius Chelaru

cutting the shadow of love in two loneliness [sic], a two poet collection by James Meredith (Ireland) & Marius Chelaru (Romania).

Published 2017 by Romanian publishing house Eidtura Timpul.

ISBN: 978-973-612-695-6

Features 23 tanka by James Meredith & 25 tanka by Marius Chelaru.