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.