New to 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and, to mark the 93rd birthday of Japan’s greatest living poet [b.15.12.1931], he selects Shuntaro Tanikawa - A Poet's Japan.

France declared a full lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Shortly thereafter, poets and friends Marilyn ...

Compiled about 800 years ago, Hyakunin Isshu includes one excellent poem from each of 100 poets, who used just 31 syllables to express a wide range of emotions keyed to the passing seasons.

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the Peanuts ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92. While his poems have been translated into many foreign ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, in a poem recited at the annual New Year's Poetry Reading on Wednesday, expressed how he was heartened to ...

A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the ...

I’ve been in Japan for less than 24 hours and somehow, I’ve found myself in a ruby-red basement bar watching an 89-year-old ...

Poems written by imperial family members and guests were recited in a traditional style at the ceremony in the palace's Matsu ...