Goro Takano, from Japan, will be our featured writer in August.
Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Goro Takano is an assistant professor at Saga University, where he teaches English and Japanese. He has published several volumes of poetry in both English and Japanese including Responsibilities of the Obsessed (2013), Silent Whistle-Blowers (2015), Non Sequitur Syndrome (2018), and Sunday Double Suicide (2022). He has also translated
Lost Sheep, a work by Japanese modernist poet Shiro Murano.
Takano’s first Japanese-only poetry collection Nichiyo-bi no Shinju (Sunday Double Suicide), his second Japanese-only one Hyaku-nen Tattara Aimasho (Why Don't We Meet Again a Hundred Years Later?) and his third Japanese-only one Kishi to Kofu (Knight and Miners) were published in 2019, 2021, and 2024. respectively.
Takano’s relationship with Booranga Writers grew out of contact through the annual Japan Writers Conference over more than a decade. During Booranga’s COVID international poetry Zoom readings, June 2020, Takano was one of the international participants. He is looking forward to being Booranga’s featured writer in August and sharing his work with Riverina writers and readers. While in Wagga, Takano will present a writing workshop with a bilingual flavour (watch for separate event listing).
On 15 August we'll have our usual Open Mic - in which you are all warmly invited to participate.
Members $10
Non-Members $15
Payable at the door, cash or card
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