Wago Ryoichi, Since Fukushima and always in love with

and always in love with people and country

these are poems of quiet and acute observation grounded in the experience of a familiar contemporary urban environment

Recent plays are Contest

a few years after the Tokyo Olympics that would herald the end of the ‘post-war’ years and the start of an economic boom in Japan

Eddie Paterson’s poems have been widely published

Wago Ryoichi, Since Fukushima and always in love withShortlisted for the 2024 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize 'To read Wago Ryoichi's Since Fukushima is to wake up in a hall of mirrors. Not the kind Bruce Lee enters in Enter the Dragon. In Halebsky & Takahashis astounding translation of Wago's world, the mirrors face the walls, while their opaque sides stare at you. And while in Bruce Lee's room you would be lost among your doppelgangers, in Wago's you will be alone. This is not to say he has