New to 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and, to mark the 93rd birthday of Japan’s greatest living poet [b.15.12.1931], he selects Shuntaro Tanikawa - A Poet's Japan.

Poets Shoichi Nejime and Shuntaro Tanikawa once performed ... It simply taught me how fun poetry can be. Probably because Tanikawa constantly struggled with the power of words, he never hid ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92. While his poems have been translated into many foreign ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, Japan's most popular poet for more than half a century, whose stark and whimsical poems, blending humor with melancholy, made him a kind of everyman philosopher ideally suited ...

For Shuntaro Tanikawa, Saburo Kuroda and other poets, broadcasting was an effective channel through which they would break the stagnation overshadowing the contemporary poetry at that time and ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, has died aged 92. Tanikawa, who translated the Peanuts comic strip and penned the lyrics for the theme song of the animation series Astro ...