Katherine Samuelowicz has a unique ability to carry her readers/viewers into the spaces of strong human emotion which challenges but does not threaten. As a tanka poet working in a second language she is without peer. Drawing on both the Japanese tanka tradition and Eastern European influences of her native Poland, Katherine takes us on a 21st journey into the metaphysical with a deceptively light touch that hints of, but never explains, the mystery of the human condition and, in this case, her own. Each in Own Future is a brave and evocative adventure in words, music and images.
Jacqui Murray, Byron Bay, 2008
Elegant and spare, and highly individualistic in tone, Katherine Samuelowicz's poems combine with her intriguing and, at times, achingly beautiful photographs, to offer snapshots of the poet's emotional life and visual experience.
Beverley George, Editor of Eucalypt: A tanka Journal
Katherine Samuelowicz writes with an urgency that bespeaks the pervasive sense of loss that lingers about her tanka - loss of a lover, loss of a loved one, loss of time, loss of home:
back home
for a week now
still dreaming
in the other
language
But which is this „other language”? The English of her adopted Australia or the Polish of her birthplace? And where, precisely, is „back home”?
Jeffrey Woodward, Editor Haibun Today; Associate Editor The HyperTexts
Katherine is a gifted poet and photographer who, in this DVD, has made an important contribution to the tanka scene with her combination of words and images.
Patricia Prime, Co-editor of Kokako
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