Publisher's Synopsis
Helen Fujimoto b. 1946, South Australia. Researched MA in KL and Penang, Malaysia. Moved to Tokyo with husband Akimi Fujimoto and eldest son in 1980. Monograph "The South Indian Community and the Evolution of the Jawi Peranakan up to 1948" was published in 1989 and "Jalan Jalan: Living in a Malay Village" (in Japanese) in 1990. Taught English in various locations in Tokyo, Malaysian history at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (1988 1994) and was tenured at Japan College of Social Work 1997 2011.
BIOThis collection of poems covers the arc of Helen's life in Japan and her relationship with her husband. Earlier poems about their first meetings and later marriage are augmented by the more recent poems at the heart of the book. These poems chart the course of her experience of the illness and death of her husband, and the changes in her life brought by grief and the need to reweave her life. Singing the Seasons is the first collection of poems published by the Australian-born Tokyo resident.
