
I’m excited to release a little chapbook of twelve tanka strings written over the last few years. Editing a tanka journal takes time away from writing my own poems, and the tanka that I have jotted down in my notebook have mostly been threaded into these strings. Some have been published in journals. I’ve brought them together here, decorated with a few little watercolour leaves.
The poems are nostalgic in tone, or reflecting on nature, relationships, life.
The classic tanka subjects.
I hope you enjoy Turning the Calendar with me.

Turning the Calendar : twelve tanka strings by Julie Thorndyke.
Chapbook. Swan Bay Books, 2025. ISBN 978 0 9808407 8 0 Overseas purchasers may incur extra postage charges.
A$20.00