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Workshops & Ginko

22nd Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival and the Irish Haiku Society announce

a Haiku Workshop

with the poet Anatoly Kudryavitsky

held in St. Paul's Secondary School, Hopkins Lane (across the road from St. Peter's and Paul's Church), Monasterevin, Co. Kildare

on Tuesday 28th July, 2009; 2pm

Admission free

Further festival information at

www.gerardmhopkins.org | e-mail: irishhaikusociety [at] hotmail.com | Tel. 045 525601

The Irish Haiku Society will conduct a ginko (an organised haiku-writing walk/excursion) in Dun Laoghaire / Sandycove

on Saturday, June 20^th, 2009 at noon

The meeting point is the main entrance to Sandycove Dart Station

Everybody is very welcome to join us! Writing haiku in the course of a ginko is not in the least obligatory

For further details please email:

irishhaikusociety at hotmail dot com

or phone +353 87 123 0502

Members News

The results of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Invitational 2009 (Canada) have just been published here. Terry O'Connor (Galway), a member of the Irish Haiku Society, was the winner of the Best International Poem 2009 prize with the following haiku:

cherry blossoms —

one more go

on the old swing

Two other Irish poets won Honorable Mentions; Gabriel Rosenstock with this haiku:

falling

for each other

cherry blossoms

and Anatoly Kudryavitsky with the following poem:

letterbox opened —

the round dance of bills and

cherry blossom petals

Congratulations to the winners!

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The results of the Capoliveri International Haiku Competition (Tuscany, Italy) for 2008 have just been published here. Sharon Burrell (Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin), a member of the Irish Haiku Society, was this year's English-language winner and a co-winner of Premio Internazionale, the main prize. The prize is awarded annually for a selection of five haiku. Congratulations to the winner!

The prize is awarded annually for a selection of five haiku.

Readings

The Launch of the Polish issue of Shamrock Haiku Journal

Friday 29th May 2009 in the Irish Polish Society
20 Fitzwilliam Place (off Leeson St.), Dublin 2
at 7.30pm

This issue is focused on Polish haiku but also has an ample international section, including works by Irish haijin (haiku poets).
The line-up for the evening includes

Sharon Burrell, Patrick Chapman, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Walter Daniel McGuire, Terry O'Connor, Hugh O'Donnell, Siofra O'Donovan, Martin Vaughan, Aisling White

Also, a native speaker of Polish will recite the original Polish poems alongside the English translations published in Shamrock.
Admission is free, and the Irish-Polish house provides refreshments.

For further details please tel. +353 87 123 0502 or email:

irishhaikusociety[at]hotmail.com

Publications

Haiku Collections by Irish Poets

Published in Ireland

1. Michael Hartnett. Inchicore Haiku. Raven Arts Press, 1985

2. Dermot O'Brien. The Living Now. Kamac Publications, 1994

3. Gabriel Rosenstock. Cold Moon: Erotic Haiku. Domhan Books, 1999

4. Sean Brophy. Elegy and Other Poems. Rainsford Press, 2003

5. John W Sexton. Shadows Bloom. Doghouse Books, 2004

6. Tony Curtis. Crossings: 21 Brodges. Design Factory, 2004

7. Dermot O'Brien. Small World. Veritas, 2004

8. Gilles Fabre. Because of the Seagull. Fishing Cat Press, 2005

9. Maeve O'Sullivan (with Kim Richardson). Double Rainbow. Alba Publishing, 2005

10. Gabriel Rosenstock. Géaga Trí Thine. Comhar Teoranta, 2006 (haiku in Irish)

11. Anatoly Kudryavitsky. Morning at Mount Ring. Doghouse Books, 2007

Published outside Ireland

1. James Norton. Words on the Winds. Waning Moon Press (Portsmouth, England), 1997

2. James Norton, Sean O'Connor (with Ken Jones). Pilgrim Foxes. Pilgrim Press (Aberysthwyth, Wales), 2001

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Shamrock

Haiku Journal

of the Irish Haiku Society

edited by Anthony Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Enter the Shamrock site here:

http://www.shamrockhaiku.webs.com