Title: Another Country Haiku Poetry from Wales
Author/Editor: Nigel Jenkins
Publisher: Gomer Press
Publication Date: 15 Mar 2011
Synopsis: From Amazon
This is the first ever Welsh national anthology of haiku poetry, and features the work of forty authors who have contributed significantly to the development and popularity of this most ancient yet versatile of literary forms. Concise, precise and evocative, and taking us on a journey through and around the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of everyday life, these poems have been selected and edited by three highly respected pioneers of the haiku in Wales, Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones and Lynne Rees
Thanks to the wonderful Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea I have a taster of the poems included in this gorgeous book.
conjure the mountain.
Everything will disappear.
Tony Curtis
a bullfinch sparks off
into the gloom an old
sadness returns
Chris Torrance
this evening
filling the space between us
the scent of honeysuckle
John Rowlands
inside our bedroom window
the spider’s web abandoned
Ken Jones
Summer’s too short here
for romance
Marion Carlisle
At sunset
My shadow
Grows absent
Humberto Gatica
I hope this has encouraged you to give poetry a try.
Thanks for reading
I hope this has encouraged you to give poetry a try.
Thanks for reading
Great post! I love poetry, particularly contemporary poetry and haiku. These poems are beautiful, and I love the images you chose to go with them (I actually used the first image of rain in a poetry chapbook I had to do for a poetry final when I was in college).
ReplyDeleteWow these are lovely. I've never tried that type of poetry before. I love John Rowlands one, that's my fave. x
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