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Title: Can haiga be considered ekphrastic?
Post by: Mary Stevens on July 10, 2014, 02:59:04 AM

I'm thinking probably not b/c the poem doesn't describe the visual artwork, but rather links to it. What say you all?

Title: Re: Can haiga be considered ekphrastic?
Post by: AlanSummers on July 10, 2014, 03:13:13 AM

Hi Mary,

I write a lot of ekphrastic poetry.

As haiga is, or should be, a person's own art, I wonder if it's a parallel art form to ekphrasis?

Blithe Spirit regularly ran, each issue, a competition for BHS members to write about one of John Parson's works and I won with this: http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/ekphrastic-haiku-alan-summers-wins.html

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: Mary Stevens on July 10, 2014, 02:59:04 AM
I'm thinking probably not b/c the poem doesn't describe the visual artwork, but rather links to it. What say you all?

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