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Wild Flowers, New Leaves A Collection of World Haiku edited by Susumu Takiguchi

 

Dear Kuyu (haiku friend),

The WHF2000/2002 world haiku anthology will be officially launched at the World Haiku Festival 2002 Yuwa Town, Akita 20-22 September 2002. 

WILD FLOWERS, NEW LEAVES – A COLLECTION OF WORLD HAIKU, edited by Susumu Takiguchi, The World Haiku Club Publication in commemoration of World Haiku Festival 2000 & 2002, Ami-Net International Press, First published 2002, pp. 304, ISBN 1 902135 03 2, Poetry/Literary Criticism, Price: GBP 10 + p & p GBP 2 (US$ 15 + p & p US$ 3, Euro 15 + p & p Euro 3)

The book is just what the title says – a collection of haiku poems, and there are no learned dissertations or policy-stating introduction (these are being amply treated in World Haiku Review and many haiku mailing lists at WHC). This rather unusual policy has been inspired by the haiku cards project of the Croatian haiku poet Visnja McMaster, whereby cards with children’s haiku written on them are used for people to learn and enjoy haiku through this delightful game. I have had a rare and most refreshing experience when I was given these cards and could just enjoy concentrating on the appreciation of haiku poems only without the “interference” of any articles. It was a sheer joy and I hope the readers of this anthology will experience the same.

The authors whose poem(s) are selected in the book will be given a contributors’ special discount if their payment is made before 22 September, the last day of WHF2002 during which the book will be officially launched. The list of these authors is pasted below. The discount is 50 %.

If you would like to take advantage of this special discount, please send GBP 6 per copy (inclusive of p & p) in cash (which is infinitely preferable but at sender’s risk: so far no trouble for the past ten years) or Sterling denominated IMO (international money order), payable to the “World Haiku Festival”, to WHC Headquarters, Leys Farm, Rousham, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 4RA, England, to reach by 22 September 2002. Please do not forget to put your postal address to which you wish your copy to be sent. Though the British pound is preferred, you could also send your money in US$ or Euro (US$ 9, or Euro 9 per copy. Again, cash is preferred under the same condition as mentioned above). No other currencies are accepted.

Copies will be dispatched after the official launch.

As for the copyright issue, first and foremost the majority of the poems were submitted in those competitions, various kukai and/or any other WHC or non-WHC projects which were connected with World Haiku Festival on the condition or understanding of them being considered to be included in the anthology, whereby no permission was sought. For other poems, while every effort was made to obtain copyright permission, there may be some whose copyright permissions were lost with the computer meltdown or could not be made available in time for the printing. Biographical information was obtained largely from the authors themselves but in some cases publicly available information was also used, and it is not exhaustive (i.e. not for all authors).

  (Please note that regrettably no reply will be made to any enquiries about this anthology)

  With best wishes,

  Susumu Takiguchi
Chairman , The World Haiku Club

 

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By way of explaining a little bit about the book, the following are some of the excerpts from Editor’s Note, followed by the list of authors:

This book is the result of over three years’ poetic endeavour by haiku poets around the world, with two momentous events as their focal points – World Haiku Festival 2000, London-Oxford 25 to 30 August 2000 and World Haiku Festival 2002, Yuwa Town, Akita, Japan, 20 to 22 September 2002.

Reflecting a primary aim of WHC, that of discovering new talent and encouraging beginners, preference was given to works by these people, rather than by well-established poets…

… Emphasis was placed, instead, on such qualities as newness, originality, individuality, poetic inspiration emanating from local soil, sensibility reflecting the author’s life and personality, an element of “surprise”, and above all, the “poetry” in the haiku.

… In addition to representing a characteristic of haiku, “wild flowers” also connote those poets who are the uninitiated, hidden talent, or outside the mainstream of haiku poets… “New leaves” signify beginners, or new talent, who are all-important new blood for the haiku community…

I have also departed from standard conventions of compiling an anthology of haiku. First and foremost, poems are not classified in this book according to kigo or seasonal cycles. Nor are they classified by author. Some other fancy classifications have not even been considered. Instead, poems are classified by broad new categories, and subdivisions, such as “universe”, “human condition” or “urban themes”.

The biographical section at the end of the book is based mainly on the authors’ own submissions. The list is not exhaustive. In order to show their personality, only minimal editing has been done and wherever possible, as much of each entry was retained as space allowed.

 

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  List of Authors included in the book:

 

Abe, Mitsugu

Adjanski, Pavle

Albugis, Firdaus

Amor, Stephen

Anderson, Hortensia

Babusci, Pamela A.

Baker, Winona Louise

Barlow, John

Barnes, Gary (soji)

Batz, Gretchen Graft

Bender, Debra Woolard

Bene, Cindy

Berryman, Larry

Bhagwat Saran, Agarwala

Bird, John

Blankenship, Gary

Bogdanovic, Radunka

Bostok, Janice

Bouwer, Izak

Brady, Peter

Bremer, Riate

Brooks, Mark

Buettner, Marjorie

Bukva, Borivoj

Bunsic, Becky

Burkhart, Owen

Byrd, Darrell

Carley, John

Chang, Yu

Clark, Bruce

Clark, Ross

Clausen, Tom

Clement, Rosa

Cobb, Kathy Lippard

Codrescu, Ion

Coman, Sonia Cristina

Compton, Ellen

Crook, John

Curson, Paul

Dacic, Rade

Dahl, DeVar

de Gruttola, Raffael

Dell, Pearl Elizabeth

Denis, Ferre

Devide, Vladimir

Diordievic, Jasminka Nadaskic

Djordjevic, Branislav

Djurbabic, Svetomir

Doderovic, Zoran

Duprey, Meryl

Duranti, Riccardo

Dystrup, Allan

Egger, Marlene J.

Escareal, Juanito

Forrester, Stanford

Fraenkel, William

Funda, Zeljko

Gallagher, Patrick

Gallimore, Daniel

Gary Moyer, Pamela

Geerts, Marius
Gendrano, Victor P.

George, Barry A.

Gibson, Robert
Gilli, Ferris

Gladic, Dusan

Gurga, Lee

Hadman, Ty

Hall, Carolyn

Hall, Helen

Hannah, Edith

Hansen, Hanne

Hardenbrook, Yvonne

Harlifa, Khairi

Hart, William

Hatanaka, Maki

Heard, Ron

Heinrich, Peggy

Herold, Christopher

Hornyak, Tim

Howell, Michael

Hudson, Bill

Hurm, Ken

Kaplan, Betty

Karkoski, James

Keener, Earl R.

Kim, Hi-Young

Kinai, Mieko

Kirschner, Joseph

Klontz, Bill

Klontz, Joann

Koelman, Ton

Koganei, Yasuomi

Kohlmaier, Kayla

Kolaric, Ivan

Kolomper, Angelika

Komurasaki, Kim

Kondo, Kris

Laurent, Patricia A.

LeCount, David E.

Leechford, Robert

Lind, Charles

Lloyd, Judith

Lovell, Robin

Lucas, Martin

Ludwig, Horst

Lyles, Peggy

MacNeil, Paul

Mair, Catherine

Manjrekar, Johannes

Manson, Margaret

McClure, Mary Lee

McFadden, Joe

McMahen, Keith

Meery, Barbu

Mena, Paul David

Mervis, Amelia

Milisavljevic, Milojko

Mill, Sue

Miller, Paul

Miller Ness, Pamela

Mimica, Zoran

Molhuysen, Emile

Molhuysen, Pamela

Morcom, Joanne

Morita, Toge

Moura, Elizabeth

Nagami, Hidetoshi

Naia [Higgins, Gail]

Nel, Ronel

Neubauer, Patricia

Neville, Jay

Nickels-Wisdom, Michael

Nonin, Takashi

Noyes, H. F.

Ntoutoume, Jasmine

Obrovski, Aleksandar

Osawa, Shigeko

Osterhaus, Mark Alan

Owen, W. F.

Parker, Robert

Patchel, Christopher

Peel, Jesse

Persch,  Robert J

Petrovic, Andja aka [an'ya]

Platt, David J.

Porad, Francine

Py, Daniel

Raisfeld, Carol

Ramesh, K.

Rasmussen, Ray

Rietveld, Hetty

Rudawsky, Kathi

Ryan, Kevin

Saeki, Junko

Samuelowicz, Katherine
Sanders, Lewis

Savina, Zoe

Schofield, Fred

Scott, Rob

Seo, Naomi

Shigemoto, Yasuhiko

Siddiqui, Sohail Ahmed

Sircoulomb, Carol

Smith, Stephen John

Solomon, Arthur

Soutedijk, Truus

Sragher, Peter

St. Jacques, Elizabeth

Stanton, Cecily

Steele, David

Steel, Lynne

Steinberg, Gary

Sterba, Carmen

Stevenson, John

Steyn, Maria

Stojanovski, Bogdanka

Stuart, John

Sudo, Toru

Summers, Alan J.

Summers, Rita

Suzuki, Seiho

Takiguchi, Susumu

Takke, Khaosarn

Talbot, Bob

Tanaka, Toshie

Tarrani, Victoria (zephyr)

Tasker, Brian

Tebo, Cindy

Teraoka, Mitsuko

Terdiman, Allen M.

Tome, Serge

Torvund, Helge

Tot, Ferenc

Turner, James

Uhlemann, Inga

van Gulick, Gusta

Vargo, Mirko

Vazic, Sasa

Verhart, Max

Vermeeren, Arnold

Vilen, Florence

Waterhouse, Hugh

Webb, Diana

West, John

West, Maggie

Wicker, Nina A.

William, Thorn

Williams, Alison

Wilson, Billie

Windsor, Sheila

Wisdom, John W.

Witata, Vitomir Miletic

Woollard, Ron

Wyatt, Bill

Yanagibori, Etsuko

Yoshida, Noriko

Yoshikawa, Midori

Zachwieja, Ted M.

Zackowitz, Cindy

Zeljko, Funda

Zivanovic, Radovan

Zlatic-Kavgic, Nada

 

 

 

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