The Glass Clouding by Masaoka Shiki and translated by Abby Ryder-Huth Michael Mackmin as well as bell-clear descriptions

as well as bell-clear descriptions of the task of writing

mindscapes

The Blue Cocktail includes poems alert and alive to language itself

that’s both spooky and disruptive

experiencing the saturation of new motherhood or engaging in a boundary-dissolving encounter with a psychedelic cactus

The Glass Clouding by Masaoka Shiki and translated by Abby Ryder-Huth Michael Mackmin as well as bell-clear descriptionsPublished 15th April 2025. The Glass Clouding blends translation and poetry in an extended meditation on and through Masaoka Shikis late life writing. Shiki, a Japanese poet and critic who died in 1902 of tuberculosis at the age of 35, revitalized the form of haiku. His work, a study in looking, documents his experience of confinement with a spare immediacy and a rich sense of the visible outside world he could not directly access. The Glass Clouding