Arts & Humanities
The Arts & Humanities Category is a collection of information from a wide range of topics. From History, to Visual Arts, to Writing, Langages, Literature and Museum reviews, arts is a field that brings cultures and civilizations alive.
The image attached here depicts a traditional flautist and a tabala player of Sri Lanka. When one enters the country via the Colombo International Airport, these musicians sit at the entrance welcoming guests and tourists with their calm, soothing music.
Image Credit: Amanda Dcosta
Shipra Parish is the Principal of Dipto Nrittokola Academy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She choreographs her dances and sways gracefully in tune with traditional folk and classical Bangladeshi dance forms.
Image credit: Shipra Parish
Book Review: Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 1
Volume 1 of the Take Five series is a collection of tanka poems in individual, prose and sequence forms. A collection of approximately 320 tanka, this volume gives an insight into the making of a good tanka, with particular description about the qualities of tanka that stand out and make their mark.
Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 2
Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 2 is the sequel to Volumes 1. This is an annual compilation of tanka, ranging from 16,000 submissions to 140 venues (2009).
User Rating: 5 / 5
The Assassin’s Mistress by J. H. Bográn
Review by MJ Logan
Length: 3500 word short story.
Rated: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Genre: Crime Thriller
Inside: Deception, love, murder and a twisted destiny.
"Take my hand if you want to live!" It was more than an offer to save her life, although even professional hit-man Robert Prescott could not have dreamed it was so. The Assassin's Mistress has a spy-thriller feel and the well written story keeps you turning the pages from beginning to end. A great read and your only regret will be putting it down.
Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 3
"The poems in this year’s anthology reflect the great diversity of themes to be expected from such a diverse range of poets. Yet two themes recur frequently in this volume, and indeed the previous volumes and tanka in general: love and death.
Strangely, when writers are attempting to describe what tanka is to those unfamiliar with it, they often mention the subject of love, but rarely mention death, even though death poems have been a major part of the tanka tradition all the way back to the Man’yosh!" (The editor, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Volume 3)
The Waldgrave Series by A.L. Tyler
Review by MJ Logan
This book is a single novel that spans three books.
Total length three books: 260,000+ words
Rated: 5 stars
Genre: Young Adult, Gothic Paranormal Mystery
Inside: Deception, love, murder and a twisted destiny.
Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4
Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4 is the sequel to Volumes 1, 2 and 3 from previous years. M.Kei and his team of eight editors, including names like Claire Everett and David Terelinck, have chosen approximately 350 tanka for this volume.
A technologically challenged writer of early birth whimsically expresses his computer confusion.
Rough Living: Tips and Tales of a Vagabond
Book review of Rough Living: Tips and Tales of a Vagabond. A guide with tips and tricks for living rough, and interesting stories from the author's perspective.
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