Volume 5 Issue 1 - 2005
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 WHF2005 in Romania - report, photos, papers and more inside this issue

A STEP FURTHER FOR HAIKU IN EDUCATION—WHF2005 in Romania—Official Report, Sonia Cristina Coman, RO

Keynote Speech:
 FUGA NO MAKOTO—Poetic Sincerity, Honesty and Truth– the Ultimate Aim of Haiku Education, Susumu Takiguchi, UK

 

 TWADDLINGS - WHChaiku:

VANGUARD 'HARD HAIKU'—a special 2-part feature. Part 1: General Hard Haiku Examples; Part 2: 60 YEARS ON, a project of WHC's forum members in remembrance World War II.

HAIKU, THE GENTLE ART OF DISAPPEARING - Part 2 in the serial from a new book by the Irish haiku poet, Gabriel Rosenstock.

 

 PITH & VINEGAR -WHCsenryu :

BAKUMATSU AND MEIJI UNDERGROUND VERSE FORMS, a special feature article examining senryu (inc. use of 'ugachi') and related Japanese verse forms; by Dean Brink, Professor of Japanese studies, St. Martin's University.

A STUDY OF TRUE SENRYU (PART I), introducing members' senryu and forum projects  since WHCsenryu's radical review and recommencement. An eye-opening 3-page study on UGACHI, and the Chick speaks!

 

 TOMO NO WA/FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE - WHCjapan:

ON ORIGINALITY AND JAPANESE CULTURE— an Historical Perspective of Art and Technology: Japanese Culture Revived in Digital Era, by Machiko Kusahara, Ph.D,  School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, JP

 

 OUT OF THE TREETOPS - TREETOPS

Treetops haiku column is back with its Editor, Ferris Gilli, at World Haiku Review!

Ferris brings us two special features in "OUT OF THE TREETOPS": QUIETUDE AND SURPRISE, by Lenard D. Moore, and an excerpt from Ferris's "HAIKU CONNECTIONS: An Introduction to Haiku," A HAIKU JOURNEY.

 

 STRANDGUT / FLOTSAM - WHCgerman:

THE POETRY OF INGRID KUNSCHKE — haiku, tanka & haibun. WHCgerman begins a new series featuring experienced writers of haiku and related forms written in the German idiom. There are two important purposes for these selections:  to showcase the most interesting work of established poets in German, and also to introduce the developing voices who are writing haiku in the German idiom around the world.

 

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