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World Haiku Festival 2000 Photo Album
Visnja McMaster, a respected
international haiku poet from Croatia, talks with late John Crook, British
counterpart, in the library of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese House, the Conference
venue in London. Visnja made a deep impression on the audience of the
special seminar "Haiku, Education & Good Causes" when she read a
well-constructed paper on the positive impact of haiku on education and
various charitable activities. Her talk was based on her own experience.
Visnja also read the paper by James W. Hackett who could not make the
Conference for health reasons. John gave two papers, one in defence of the
tradition of haiku created in the West. He maintained Western haiku
should be given credit and judged on its merits rather than criticised by the
standards derived from the Japanese haiku. The second paper was a quick and
comprehensive guide through the complex sites and haiku lists available on the
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