ROSES ARE SILENT

<p>Tamiko Dooley opens her collection <strong><em>Bara wa Shizuka</em></strong> with <strong><em>Tsuru</em></strong>...making a crane out of paper which establishes the cultural context... Dooley's poems of love loyalty chance & change are...a kind of origami anecdote folded into image word-sound folded into personal recollection... <strong><em>Roses are Silent</em></strong> might be read as a contemporary pastoral. 'Not for me the serenity of pasture... Take me on a train into Tokyo'. </p><p><strong><em>John Greening poet critic and playwright.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Balanced between languages cultures & traditions Tamiko Dooley's <strong><em>Roses are Silent</em></strong> is filled with family memory and the tangled cats' cradles of the sensual world in all its terror and joy... Dooley and her delicate word music make for a persuasive propulsive guide.</p><p><strong><em>Adam Horovitz poet performer and editor.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>These pieces transcend location & straddle cultures. Each poem is a delicate work that explores the beautiful fleeting & difficult moments in daily experience; capturing a unique sensuality that reminds us of the bittersweet nature of life.</p><p><strong><em>Dr Michael Tsang Programme Director & Lecturer in Japanese Studies Birkbeck University</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Dooley brings an exquisite sense of the potential in different forms...to a meditation on lives & loves... There is both formal mastery here & a sharp sympathetic sense for human confusion. Tell me how it happened; so she does. </p><p><strong><em>Luke Pitcher Fellow & Tutor in Classics; Associate Professor in Classical Languages & Literature Somerville University of Oxford.</em></strong></p><p></p>