Tag Archives: Marion Clarke

11th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo Haiku Contest

Posted on March 24, 2022 by seaviewwarrenpoint

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 →

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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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‘Garden Party’ on Haiku Masters

Posted on August 25, 2017 by seaviewwarrenpoint

  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 →

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Hermit crab haiku in the Financial Times

Posted on November 12, 2014 by seaviewwarrenpoint

Well, I knew I’d never make it into the Financial Times for my business acumen, but I’m happy enough to have had one of my haiku published in the London broadsheet. 🙂 It was selected as runner up in the FT weekly haiku competition based … Continue reading →

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Launch of Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing

Posted on October 16, 2014 by seaviewwarrenpoint

I was very honoured to read at the recent launch of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Bob Collins, Chair of the Arts Council, Connor Shields, CEO of Community Arts Partnership (CAP) and Chelley McLear, CAP Project … Continue reading →

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Thanks to Libraries NI

Posted on August 8, 2014 by seaviewwarrenpoint

I had a very enjoyable launch of my joint art exhibition, EXPO 2014, with Eirian McKay on Wednesday evening with family and invited guests in Warrenpoint Library. I first met Eirian at an art group some years ago and, although we have … Continue reading →

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The Infection reaches Warrenpoint!

Posted on September 30, 2011 by seaviewwarrenpoint

I was so excited when the doorbell rang a few minutes ago during my French class and the postman handed me a package. In it were my copies of The Infection anthology – cheers Mitch! I stopped the class instantly and let … Continue reading →

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