Shuntarō Tanikawa’s New Selected Poems is a comprehensive, arresting and insightful survey of the Japanese poet’s career from his first collection, Ten-Billion Light Years from Solitude (1952), through to the quite recent Kokoro (2013), and many intriguing points between. In total the book covers twenty-two of Tanikawa’s immensely varied collections, with abbreviated portions from each … Continue reading Shuntarō Tanikawa, New Selected Poems trans. by William I. Elliot and Kazuo Kawamura (Carcanet Press) £12.99