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Brilliant, Alan!!!  ;) Just started watching...

Yes - Sergio is there - congratulations!  ;D

marion

I've just been reading through some of Cindy's work. It is so sad to think that she's gone.

I haven't entered competitions as such, Julie, but I have submitted haiku to mainstream poetry journals and was delighted to have had them published.

marion

I've just seen this!  :o Thanks Alan, John and Vida. It was a nice feeling when Anatoly introduced me at the launch of Bamboo Dreams on Tuesday night as a winner of a Sakura award in this year's festival!!!

Quote from: Chase Fire on September 24, 2012, 05:50:47 PM
Alan, I am very excited for this journal :) ill get my submission ready, hopefully I can be in the first issue of Bones :)

Me too!

marion

Thanks, Andy. It was a great evening...now I want to do more!  ;D

marion

Quote from: John McManus on September 26, 2012, 11:36:27 AM
Here is a ku of mine relating to Basho's old pond . . .

plastic frog . . .
thinking of Basho
as my son plays

Published in Mango Moons, 2011.

I really like this one! It's funny...

I 've probably committed every cliché sin - apart from the pond one!  ;D But does this mean you can't write about a heron when that's what you're sitting looking at or it's what's standing looking at you?  :o

It helped that I'd read earlier in the summer in Belfast, but that was a smaller venue in a literary pub/cafe, so I wasn't too nervous as it felt quite informal. Last night's gig was in a church and was all high ceilings, harp music and candles, and we read from the pulpit - so it was a bit awe-inspiring anyway. I hope I did okay, but I guess the recording may say otherwise!

That's a great idea to have a rehearsal, but as contributors to this anthology were scattered over the 32 counties of Ireland I guess there wouldn't have been a big uptake other than those from around the Dublin area.

Thanks for providing the link, on here and AHA. I hadn't got round to looking for it and you had already posted it on each!   :)

marion

Thanks, Alan. I didn't know about the Welsh anthology, thanks for that.

I'm hoping Anatoly will put it up as I think he was recording speakers. Well, I don't really hope so as I dread to think what I was like, although he did say I was a good reader afterwards...but maybe he says that to everyone!  ;D

marion

I travelled to Dublin by cab, rail and the DART yesterday then walked for half an hour in order to read at the launch of new anthology, Bamboo Dreams

This publication is the first ever Irish national anthology of haiku edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky. The Minister of Arts launched the collection and spoke of the recent rise in popularity of haiku in Ireland. I was honoured to have been asked for permission for my work to appear in a publication that contains a haiku from mainsteam Irish poets Seamus Heaney and Patrick Kavanagh. Some of my haiku that featured in the anthology were workshopped on The Haiku Foundation and AHA - so thank you everyone! 

marion

I think I like Patrick Sweeney's best, John. It made me think of life on this planet being as transient as a wave breaking on the shore under a vast blue sky.

marion

Both of these make me think that the writer is describing childhood memories. I wonder if the gold beetles are the reflections in the child's eyes from a bedside lamp just before their mother/father extinguised itt?

The second makes me think of children playing, perhaps at a birthday party or during a dressing up session (maybe the lone ranger!) and someone has just walked out of the house and down the garden path and the child is brought out of their imagination by the visitor closing the gate. I imagine they went straight back to their game afterwards...

I think I prefer the second one as it provides me with an entire scene.

Thanks David - it is true, I felt very close to my father that day. Although we had a great relationship, my father was not a sentimental person and we are not being a very 'touchy feely' family so we didn't have much physical contact. Holding his hand was something I'd thought about for a few days when he was in hospital. I just wish I'd made that move earlier.

Thanks Al. I still can't believe Dad is gone. So much of what I do is filled with his memory ... he was extremely knowledgeable on a wide range of subjects and was an inspirational man. I loved listening to his former colleagues talking about him after the funeral. They had such a lot of respect for him, and told me of his great sense of humour.