Done Being Nurtured by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated by Corey Wakeling Ann Pasternak Slater wit and erudition

wit and erudition

Rodney Pybus

Seren brings us 100 Poems to Save the Earth

For fans of The Poetry Pharmacy and Poems to Live Your Life By

Published 9 July 2026

Done Being Nurtured by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated by Corey Wakeling Ann Pasternak Slater wit and eruditionFor Japanese poet Natsumi Aoyagi, language promises a more lucid, living documentation of experience. Done Being Nurtured, her debut appearance in English translation, explores the birth of insight in childhood and its resonance in adulthood through evanescent encounters with difference and nonhuman life. A butterflys transition, a chance meeting with a childhood friend, the timeline of a cicadas lifethese apparently small events punctuate existence