Since I'm short on creative inspiration today and having exhausted the literary potential of roosting starlings (not my photo btw), it's an opportune moment to highlight other haiku related web places that are worth a look.
Those of you who have not already seen a copy of the Magnapoets print edition are urged to get hold of a copy and that's not just because I edited a small part of it. Lots of interesting stuff in there, not least the interview with Robert Pinsky.
A mention of French Haiku poet Damien Gabriels site Carnets D'un Haijin is long overdue here, both for the author's own good work and the comprehensive set of links to French language haiku sites.
The bilingual German/English haiku magazine Chrysanthemum can be found here
Those of you who worry that an ingratiating culture of mutual congratulation may eventually lead to English-langauge haiku eating itself, will enjoy the folks at f/k/a's critique of my own attempts at something that may resemble haiga.
And for folks who enjoy baseball haiku (including our friends at f/k/a) I have pasted the lyrics to the excellent Sam Baker song Baseball, to demonstrate how the haiku moment can crop up in more mainstream writing. If you haven't heard Sam Baker's music before, I recommend the link on his to his interview with BBC Radio's Bob Harris if for no other reason than to hear the song "Broken Fingers" and the story behind it. Sam Baker is thin on the ground on youtube, but you can find this song here. Song starts about 1 minute 33 secs.
Those of you who have not already seen a copy of the Magnapoets print edition are urged to get hold of a copy and that's not just because I edited a small part of it. Lots of interesting stuff in there, not least the interview with Robert Pinsky.
A mention of French Haiku poet Damien Gabriels site Carnets D'un Haijin is long overdue here, both for the author's own good work and the comprehensive set of links to French language haiku sites.
The bilingual German/English haiku magazine Chrysanthemum can be found here
Those of you who worry that an ingratiating culture of mutual congratulation may eventually lead to English-langauge haiku eating itself, will enjoy the folks at f/k/a's critique of my own attempts at something that may resemble haiga.
And for folks who enjoy baseball haiku (including our friends at f/k/a) I have pasted the lyrics to the excellent Sam Baker song Baseball, to demonstrate how the haiku moment can crop up in more mainstream writing. If you haven't heard Sam Baker's music before, I recommend the link on his to his interview with BBC Radio's Bob Harris if for no other reason than to hear the song "Broken Fingers" and the story behind it. Sam Baker is thin on the ground on youtube, but you can find this song here. Song starts about 1 minute 33 secs.
posted by mattm at 19:45
2 Comments:
I enjoyed your haiga set at Simply Haiku, despite David's critique.
The images and writing, to me, are very strong whether or not they are truly haiga. I enjoyed all of them, but my favorites I suppose are "summer's end" and "close to home".
Collin
Hello matt,
thank you for your mention about my blog.
I always read your work with a great pleasure !
Damien
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