every room a different sound
soccer, hip hop
non-stop washing machine...
the guy downstairs
playing Chopin
Little Purple Universes
Helen Buckingham
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
每間房不同的聲音
足球，街舞
不停運轉的洗衣機...
樓下的那傢伙
在演奏蕭邦
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
每间房不同的声音
足球，街舞
不停运转的洗衣机...
楼下的那傢伙
在演奏萧邦
Bio Sketch
Helen Buckingham lives in Bristol, England. She has been writing tanka for about the last decade or so, and in 2009 took third place in the annual Saigyo Awards. In 2011 she had a tanka collection published alongside (and produced by) Canada's Angela Leuck, titled Little Purple Universes. Buckingham's most recent work is a solo collection comprising a mix of western and Japanese forms (including tanka) titled Armadillo Basket (Waterloo Press, UK, 2012).
Adopting an intersectional approach (gender as indicated in Ls 3&4 and age/generation in Ls 2&5), Helen skillfully describes a domestic scene about polyphonic contention from a gendered perspective.
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