Skip to content Menu

william altoft

Sidebar
  • Home
  • Blogposts
  • The Ballad Of Stokes Croft
  • The Floating Harbour
  • Free Speech Upon the Rock Above the City
  • On the resilience & vulnerability of New York City
  • Nafereti-Iti
  • Floating On The Avon By The Floodplains Of The Nile

Tag: Japanese

Posted on Mar 17, 2023Feb 26, 2026

Poetry Collection: Fleeting Songs, Eternal

My journey along the winding, wistful, wond’rous way that is Japanese poetry.

Continue Reading
Posted on Jan 31, 2023

Twirling Doodles

Well-lived.

Continue Reading
Posted on Jun 3, 2022Jun 12, 2022

雨; 雪

空が話きす.

Continue Reading
Posted on May 6, 2022

A Café Revival Comment In Free-Verse, With Sprinkuhlings Of Kanji & Hiragana

At least, it didn’t cover any words!

Continue Reading
Posted on Apr 19, 2022

Two Poems For Kawakami-San

ぼくはちちとらんに惚れます.

Continue Reading
Posted on Oct 30, 2021Oct 30, 2021

Penblossom

Blank, lined page.

Continue Reading
Posted on Sep 5, 2021

新しいの日

山は安いです.

Continue Reading
Posted on May 30, 2021

黒のコヒ

私が書います. あなたは?

Continue Reading
Posted on May 17, 2021

Riverrun

あす は 水 が へ 空 を かえります.

Continue Reading
Posted on Feb 7, 2021

Just One More Alphabet

Eddied pools of meaning.

Continue Reading
Posted on Jan 12, 2021

A Senryu, In Which I Employ Only Kanji To (Impolitely) Respond To An Imagined Query Regarding That Which I Would Like To Drink

私?

Continue Reading
Posted on Jan 10, 2021

Unlimited

Paddling swan in feathers.

Continue Reading
Posted on Nov 10, 2020

たんかのいま

私はいくます; いくました.

Continue Reading
Posted on Sep 22, 2020

A Tanka For A Friend

このぶんしょはむしろいきます.

Continue Reading
Posted on Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020

Bath Senryu

I held her.

Continue Reading

Posts pagination

Page 1 Page 2 … Page 4 Next Page

Author

William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

View Full Profile →

Blog at WordPress.com.
Top

Latest posts

  • Grief-Rage; Hope-Love Mar 25, 2026
  • A Sonnet Of Despair & Agony Feb 22, 2026
  • The Passion Of The Earth-Sprung Feb 20, 2026

Categories

Conservation Essay Floating On The Avon By The Floodplains Of The Nile Prose & poetry science Star Wars The Ballad Of Stokes Croft The Floating Harbour Uncategorized Wildlife

Tags

Ancient Egypt art Bristol cafe Egypt Gaza haiku harbourside Israel Japanese life memory morning Music night Novel Novella Palestine Palestinian poem Poetry river senryu Serialised novel sonnet Stokes Croft Summer sun tanka The Floating Harbour time Waka writer writing zappai

Recently popular

  • Never Again - An Open Letter To Labour
  • On Cecil the lion, and whether trophy hunting really does help conserve the species
  • A Prayer To Seshat
  • Two Poems For Kawakami-San
  • Free Speech Upon the Rock Above the City: on John Milton's Areopagitica, & my translation attempt

Archives

Follow william altoft on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 313 other subscribers.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • william altoft
    • Join 313 other subscribers.
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • william altoft
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...