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Tag Archives: haiku
11th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo Haiku Contest
Combining words and images to produce haiga and shahai (photo haiku) has grown to become one of my favourite creative activities. I’m a fan of short form poetry and enjoy taking photographs of the local landscape, so it’s an interesting … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, photo haiku, Setouchi-Matsuyama, Shahai
Tagged haiku, Marion Clarke, photo haiku, Shahai
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The streets of Washington DC blooming with haiku
I’ve been entering the Golden Haiku poetry contest since it began in 2014, as I love community projects that put poetry on the street. This one brings a host of haiku to downtown DC, where a selection of entries from … Continue reading
On a roll
This started off as a one-item blog post but over the last few hours it has snowballedâapologies, that’s not very seasonable! đ Haiku Dialogue, a weekly feature on The Haiku Foundation, is a great source of inspiration for haiku, and … Continue reading
Charmed
Rachel Sutcliffe, formerly of Harrowgate, North Yorkshire, was a talented haiku poet who is much missed in the international haiku community. For almost a decade, she and I workshopped our creative fiction and poetry on several online forums and since … Continue reading
Jabberwocky, swans and chocolate eggs …
My thanks to Gordon Hewitt of Community Arts Partnership, Belfast, for sharing this interview in which he asks about my writing journey and, in particular, short form poetry. Check out the other features in this month’s issue… https://www.capartscentre.com/monthly/
Posted in FourXFour, haiku, photo haiku, Shahai, short form poetry, The Haiku Foundation, Writing
Tagged Community Arts Partnership, haiku, haiku poetry, poetry forms
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“Desk-ku” and the 10th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo Haiku Contest
almost noon . . . we ask the rickshaw manto wait for the drums This photograph taken by Kit Nagamura is of rickshaws parked at the Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama. It was one of several used to inspire haiku writers … Continue reading
A video ku from the Mournes
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
Posted in haiku, Ireland, mourne mountains, photo haiku, Places, Rostrevor, short form poetry, Video Ku, Warrenpoint
Tagged childhood landscapes, haiku, Mountains of Mourne, mournes, Northern Ireland, Video Ku
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The Label, the Map and the Jukebox
The Label I must admit, I’m a sucker for quirky ways of distributing poetry. There’s something very enjoyable about watching the reaction of the public when they have been unexpectedly exposed to a poem. Belfast-based, Fermanagh poet Maria McManus is … Continue reading
Posted in Donegal, Ireland, haibun, haiku, haiku, short form poetry, Warrenpoint, Writing Events
Tagged Arts Council NI, haiku, LabelLit, Poetry Ireland, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry NI, PoetryDayIRL, Warrenpoint
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‘Garden Party’ on Haiku Masters
Feedback on a shahai or photo haiku is always appreciated, particularly when a reader has interpreted a particular combination of words and images in a different way to that which inspired it. Often this happens when someone with a … Continue reading
Posted in haiga, haiku, photo haiku, Shahai, short form poetry, Symbiotic Poetry
Tagged haiku, Haiku Masters, Japanese TV programme Haiku Masters, lotus flower, Marion Clarke, Obon, photo haiku, Shahai
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‘Clock watching’ – interpreting photo haiku
The dandelion seed head, or ‘clock flower’ in the photo below inspired the accompanying haiku. I combined the image and words in Photoshop and submitted it to the photo haiku competition organised each month by Japanese TV NHK World’s HAIKU MASTERS. Episode … Continue reading
Posted in haiga, haiku, photo haiku, short form poetry
Tagged clock flower, dandelion, haiku, making a wish, old age, photo haiku, time, wish
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