Category Archives: My Poetry

Another Leaf has dropped!

Posted on December 1, 2023 by seaviewwarrenpoint

Thanks to editor Ravi Kiran for accepting two haiku and this haiga for the second issue of LEAF Journal, published today. Keith Evetts and I provided the haiku and haiga commentaries for this issue which is available to read at … Continue reading →

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Sharpening the green pencil…

Posted on September 4, 2023 by seaviewwarrenpoint
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The Fly

Posted on November 5, 2021 by seaviewwarrenpoint

This haiga, a form that combines art with haiku or senryu, is featured on the cover of the latest issue of the journal Prune Juice. Founded by Alexis Rotella in 2009, Prune Juice Journal is the longest-running international literary journal dedicated solely to English … Continue reading →

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On a roll

Posted on October 28, 2021 by seaviewwarrenpoint

This started off as a one-item blog post but over the last few hours it has snowballed—apologies, that’s not very seasonable! 🎃 Haiku Dialogue, a weekly feature on The Haiku Foundation, is a great source of inspiration for haiku, and … Continue reading →

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Haiku translated into Chinese

Posted on August 31, 2020 by seaviewwarrenpoint

UPDATE: Chen-ou Liu has also published my poem ‘sliver of moon‘ in One Man’s Maple Moon. This one is inspired by the local church in my hometown, Warrenpoint, and is a haiku that morphed into a tanka. 🙂 A big … Continue reading →

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Published on English-speaking Union of Japan haiku programme

Posted on July 27, 2020 by seaviewwarrenpoint

Thanks to my online friend Marta Majorka Chociłowska for alerting me of the publication of this poem in the August list along with our mutual haiku friend, Marina Bellinin! 🙂 I thought I would try adding the haiku to one … Continue reading →

Posted in artwork and poetry, haiga, haiku, Ireland, Mountains of Mourne, mourne mountains, Oil Painting, Original Irish Art, short form poetry, Warrenpoint | 4 Comments

A haiku of hope

Posted on June 15, 2020 by seaviewwarrenpoint

I have just received this certificate from the Indian Kukai organisers featuring my haiku that was placed fourth in their 32nd kukai  (a peer-judged, poetry competition) The theme was hope, which we could all be doing with at the minute. … Continue reading →

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A video ku from the Mournes

Posted on May 18, 2020 by seaviewwarrenpoint

The last time I was out for a drive with my family before lockdown was on Mothers Day, March 22nd. My husband drove my daughter and me from Warrenpoint through the village of Rostrevor and when he took this road … Continue reading →

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Strange days…

Posted on April 21, 2020 by seaviewwarrenpoint
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Inspired by Japanese prints

Posted on March 31, 2020 by seaviewwarrenpoint

In autumn 2019, poets from around the world responded to a call for haiku based on Japanese prints in the collection at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. Over 800 submissions were received from poets in thirty countries. You can view … Continue reading →

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