Today I wanted to be loved by someone

The piece is "Today I Wanted to Be Loved by Everyone" (2021) by poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, tanka poet Tatsuya Kinoshita, and tanka poet Daiji Okano.

This book contains "renshi" (linked poems) by a national poet and two other notable poets, as well as "stories" between three people who are like a master and disciple, or classmates. This is a book that even those who have not read many poetry or tanka collections before can enjoy.

This book is a record of linked poems of poetry and tanka, and stories between poets and tanka poets. The linked poems are 36 pieces that were written together over four months, starting with a room in an apartment in spring. The stories are a kind of creative "post-battle" in which the authors discuss the state of mind they were in when they wrote each of the 36 pieces. They read each other and misread them, they criticize each other, and it's a mix of emotion, technique, laughter and thrills.

Specifications: 168 pages, B6 variant

Renshi is a book that alternates between poetry and song. Words are thrown at us from the other side of the paper, and sometimes we are able to catch the words, and sometimes we miss them. There is no right or wrong way to interpret it, but the latter half of the book includes commentary by the people who wrote the words, so it is a book that anyone can enjoy. (Ammel)