Book Review: Plan B Audio by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (Isobar Press, Tokyo & London, 2020), Reviewed by Pam Brown
Transnational Literature. Vol.13, Oct 2021
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Jane Joritz-Nakagawa is an indefatigable poet, teacher, linguist and editor. She is an American who has lived and worked in Japan since 1989. She devised and edited the superb transnational anthology women: poetry: migration (2017), comprising poetry and essays by forty-nine women who emigrated for diverse reasons to many different countries. She has also published two chapbooks, Diurnal (2016) and Wildblacklake (2014), an e-book, terra form(a) (2017). Plan B Audio is her tenth full-length collection.
Pam Brown has been writing, collaborating, editing and publishing in diverse modes for decades now. Her book Click here for what we do (Vagabond) was awarded the ALS Gold Medal in 2019. Pam's new collection, Stasis Shuffle, is due from Hunter Publishers in 2021. She lives in Sydney on Gadigal land.