I have just returned from a two day Haiku Festival in Tauranga exhausted and bursting with information overload about haiku, tanka and haibun.
Since I am a beginner and have never written any tanka or haibun it was all a new world to me.
Haiku Master Class with world famous Jim Kacian was full of energy and entertainment.
I was amazed the organisers Sandra Simpson and Margaret Beverland were able to obtain funding to have a person of his stature flown all the way out from America, especially for the conference.
I enjoyed the Haiku, Haibun & Everyday Things with Dr Lawrence Marceau lecture.
It was great to learn about the Japanese historical and cultural perspective of these poetic forms.
I sat opposite him and his lovely Japanese wife at dinner and we had a great conversation about Japan and pottery making.
Australian haiku expert Beverley George ran an engaging workshop on tanka.
She only had an hour which did not do her justice.
I would like to attend a workshop with her for a whole weekend.
Maybe a trip to Australia to do it would be a good in the future.
I can just see myself sitting in a Eucalyptus tree over a river in Queensland pumping out Haiku and Tanka about Kookaburras, Kangaroos and Ibises.
Owen Bullock who was the first poetry teacher to introduce me to haiku three years ago was also at the conference.
I am planning to go to Taupo to a haiku workshop he is running in August.
He is a very encouraging and positive person and it is these types of teachers that you need when first starting out.
I had a chance to catch up with Kirsten Cliff and see an array of her illustrated haiku.
It is great to see her looking so well, happy and prolific.
Kirsten has had her haiku published in journals all over the world in a relatively short space of time.
She is a master at seizing the moment.
I realise it's really easy to write trite, facile, obvious and just plain nonsensical haiku and tanka, the trick is to achieve the a-ha moment along with a degree of subtlety and lightness.
I am presuming these qualities will appear in time with my haiku and tanka with more reading and more writing and as my understanding and appreciation grows. .
My interest in reading and writing these forms has been further ignited by the conference and that's what 's all about- inspiration. .
Attending a festival is a great way to find time to have a go and write some as well as learn from the experts.
Thanks so much to Margaret and Sandra for a well run and fun Festival.
I am grateful to these people for giving up their valuable time to organise such a momentous event.
.
“Calligraphy of geese
against the sky-
the moon seals it.”
― Yosa Buson
Since I am a beginner and have never written any tanka or haibun it was all a new world to me.
Haiku Master Class with world famous Jim Kacian was full of energy and entertainment.
I was amazed the organisers Sandra Simpson and Margaret Beverland were able to obtain funding to have a person of his stature flown all the way out from America, especially for the conference.
I enjoyed the Haiku, Haibun & Everyday Things with Dr Lawrence Marceau lecture.
It was great to learn about the Japanese historical and cultural perspective of these poetic forms.
I sat opposite him and his lovely Japanese wife at dinner and we had a great conversation about Japan and pottery making.
Australian haiku expert Beverley George ran an engaging workshop on tanka.
She only had an hour which did not do her justice.
I would like to attend a workshop with her for a whole weekend.
Maybe a trip to Australia to do it would be a good in the future.
I can just see myself sitting in a Eucalyptus tree over a river in Queensland pumping out Haiku and Tanka about Kookaburras, Kangaroos and Ibises.
Owen Bullock who was the first poetry teacher to introduce me to haiku three years ago was also at the conference.
I am planning to go to Taupo to a haiku workshop he is running in August.
He is a very encouraging and positive person and it is these types of teachers that you need when first starting out.
I had a chance to catch up with Kirsten Cliff and see an array of her illustrated haiku.
It is great to see her looking so well, happy and prolific.
Kirsten has had her haiku published in journals all over the world in a relatively short space of time.
She is a master at seizing the moment.
I realise it's really easy to write trite, facile, obvious and just plain nonsensical haiku and tanka, the trick is to achieve the a-ha moment along with a degree of subtlety and lightness.
I am presuming these qualities will appear in time with my haiku and tanka with more reading and more writing and as my understanding and appreciation grows. .
My interest in reading and writing these forms has been further ignited by the conference and that's what 's all about- inspiration. .
Attending a festival is a great way to find time to have a go and write some as well as learn from the experts.
Thanks so much to Margaret and Sandra for a well run and fun Festival.
I am grateful to these people for giving up their valuable time to organise such a momentous event.
.
“Calligraphy of geese
against the sky-
the moon seals it.”
― Yosa Buson
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