POET AND TRANSLATOR FIELDEN RELEASES FIFTH COLLECTION OF HER OWN WORK – Baubles, Bangles & Beads, tanka inspired by life in Australia and Japan, and by world-wide travelling.

The fifth poetry collection – her fourth exclusively devoted to tanka in English – by award-winning Australian writer / translator Amelia Fielden, was launched in Canberra on May 13^th, 2007: Baubles, Bangles & Beads, 400 tanka arranged under titles in sequences, sets, and clusters varying from 3 to over 50 tanka per title.

The book was edited by Australian poet Kathy Kituai, and its foreword is by Patricia Prime, co-editor of Kokako, New Zealand tanka and haiku journal.

"In Baubles, Bangles & Beads, Fielden’s poems are skilfully threaded, thematically. We, as readers, are kept orientated and consequently always receptive to sharing the divers experiences the poet offers us" Beverley George, editor Eucalypt: a tanka journal.

"Your new book of tanka … is a triumph. Your knowledge of nature is great, and you have many areas in which your tanka are moving. You are certainly a major force in the tanka world". (The sequence) "Forty-four and On is a tour de force. It contains, I believe, all the comforts and difficulties of the married life … It really got to me." Sanford Goldstein, poet.

Published by Ginninderra Press, Canberra, (Australia), Baubles, Bangles & Beads comes 20 months after Ginninderra Press released Fielden’s popular Still Swimming, a title reprised with a long, two-part string of new tanka on the theme of water, in the 2007 book. Reviewing her earlier collection, New Zealand poet, Tony Beyer, wrote in Kokako: "Bilingualism lends Amelia Fielden’s practice as a tanka poet particular insight and authority … She deserves to be regarded as a leading international figure in the evolution of tanka in English."

For ordering information contact Amelia Fielden by email at anafielden@hotmail.com. Price is US$20.00, which includes airmail postage to anywhere in the world.