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"This collection of new and selected poems, like the jam that metaphorically spreads itself throughout, ""sparkles like liquid gems in a momentary sun."" Kathy Kituai takes us deeper into all our lives. She has the ability take the most ordinary experiences and imbue them with extraordinariness, to find the transcendent in the physical, the complex in the simple. These poems are deeply rooted in personal memory and quiet emotional courage. They are vivid acts of seeing-contemporary free verse with the timeless quality of Japanese Tanka. Kathy Kituai's craft is notable for carefully chosen diction and striking. Water becomes cream of black opal. After a rosella crashes into a window, ""how loud the silence that follows."""

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"These poems are deeply rooted in personal memory and quiet emotional courage. They are vivid acts of seeing-contemporary free verse with the timeless quality of Japanese Tanka. You can hear rain in the garden, you share grief in the passing of beloved pets. Kathy's writing is an un inching testimony to truth and love and loss-a masterpiece of Australian poetry. - Judith Crispin, a poet, artist and friend to dogs This is an unadorned poetry, aware that the poet is a conduit whose craft lies in an ability to take the most ordinary experiences and imbue them with extraordinariness, to find the transcendent in the physical, the complex in the simple. In her continuing commitment to the particularities of experience, Kituai takes us deeper into all our lives. is book is a pleasure to read and re-read. - John Foulcher, 101 Poems, Pitt Street Poetry Kathy Kituai's craft is notable for carefully chosen diction and striking. Water becomes cream of black opal. After a rosella crashes into a window, ""how loud the silence that follows."" In Papua New Guinea, the lines on an elderly woman's face ""swim the stories that have made such deep rivers."" - Moya Pacey, a poet This collection, like the jam that metaphorically spreads itself throughout, ""sparkles like liquid gems in a momentary sun."" Kathy Kituai inhabits the moment: ""she runs ahead to gather verbs""; sometimes fleetingly, ""the sheer shifting of self from self to self""; and sometimes ""tongue sweet with the moment."" Her poetry ""carved on the side of this page can sing beyond itself."" - Sarah Rice, winner of the Ron Pretty Poetry & the Bruce Dawe prizes Kituai's poems assure us, time and again, that right after saying goodbye, we are often saying hello. Departure leads to something new and worth examining through image and language. Through these poems, we also realise that in releasing old grief, we make room for the new in the form of image, insight, and experience. - Kimberly K Williams, Still Lives, winner, Canberra Critics Circle Award"

"These poems are deeply rooted in personal memory and quiet emotional courage. They are vivid acts of seeing-contemporary free verse with the timeless quality of Japanese Tanka. You can hear rain in the garden, you share grief in the passing of beloved pets. Kathy's writing is an un inching testimony to truth and love and loss-a masterpiece of Australian poetry. - Judith Crispin, a poet, artist and friend to dogs This is an unadorned poetry, aware that the poet is a conduit whose craft  lies in an ability to take the most ordinary experiences and imbue them with extraordinariness, to find the transcendent in the physical, the complex in the simple. In her continuing commitment to the particularities of experience, Kituai takes us deeper into all our lives. is book is a pleasure to read and re-read. - John Foulcher, 101 Poems, Pitt Street Poetry Kathy Kituai's craft is notable for carefully chosen diction and striking. Water becomes cream of black opal. After a rosella crashes into a window, ""how loud the silence that follows."" In Papua New Guinea, the lines on an elderly woman's face ""swim the stories that have made such deep rivers."" - Moya Pacey, a poet This collection, like the jam that metaphorically spreads itself throughout, ""sparkles like liquid gems in a momentary sun."" Kathy Kituai inhabits the moment: ""she runs ahead to gather verbs""; sometimes fleetingly, ""the sheer shifting of self from self to self""; and sometimes ""tongue sweet with the moment."" Her poetry ""carved on the side of this page can sing beyond itself."" - Sarah Rice, winner of the Ron Pretty Poetry & the Bruce Dawe prizes Kituai's poems assure us, time and again, that right after saying goodbye, we are often saying hello. Departure leads to something new and worth examining through image and language. Through these poems, we also realise that in releasing old grief, we make room for the new in the form of image, insight, and experience. - Kimberly K Williams, Still Lives, winner, Canberra Critics Circle Award"

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Kathy Kituai, a diarist, editor, poet, creative writing teacher (Scotland, NSW and ACT) and founder and facilitator of the Limestone Tanka Poets is never happier than when working with other writers and artists. Apart from publishing two tanka collection with Amelia Fielden, she has published poetry with numerous poets, was awarded Arts ACT funding to work with a potter, Fergus Stewart, in Scotland to produce Deep in the Valley of Tea Bowls. Nitya Bernard Parker improvised music for their CD, The Heart Takes Wing. Composer, Rosemary Austin created a musical Script The Lacemaker, the poem Elizabeth Dalmon danced to at Tillies and The Fringe - South Australia Writing Festival. Kathy was an assistant editor for the Institute of PNG Studies, tanka editor for Cattails, and Muse magazine, is published in Japan, Canada New Zealand, India, UK, USA and Australia, was president and vice president of The Fellowship of Writers, a host of Poetry Readings at Manning Clarke House, the Steering Committee for the Weereewa Lake George Arts Festival, and Arts ACT funding committee. She has judged literary competitions and co-judged the Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Competition. Accolades for her free-verse include CJ Dennis Award, St Kilda Literature Competition, Banjo Patterson Poetry Award (equal second), Somerset Poetry Prize, (runner up), The Broadway Poetry Award (finalist), and she was awarded two ACT Critic awards for her teaching. Her tanka have also been successful in the Mainichi Japanese Tanka Award, Tea Towel Award (Responses to the art of Otagaki Rengetsu), the Fuji Tanka Award, Eucalypt Scribbler's Award and Ribbons People's Choice Award.

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