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seashores
an international journal to share the spirit of haiku

 

The objective of seashores is to share haiku from all over the world and explore how the way and the spirit of haiku, with its power to connect us to nature and our world can play a role in poetry and our lives in general.

 

Issue 2
April 2019

Almost 1,000 individual entries from 129 submissions were received from the following countries for ISSUE 2: Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Montenegro, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, UK (England, Scotland and Wales), Ukraine, USA and Venezuela/Netherlands.

 

Contributors

At least one haiku from the contributors in the final list below will be published in Issue 2: Abdulqadir Abdulsattar (Iraq); Adjei Agyei-Baah (Ghana); Kate Alsbury (USA); Jean Antonini (France); Marilyn Ashbaugh (USA); Hifsa Ashraf (Pakistan); Taofeek Kehinde Ayeyemi (Nigeria); Roberta Beach Jacobson (USA); Roberta Beary (Ireland); Amanda Bell (Ireland); Sidney Bending (Canada); Daniel Birnbaum (France); Patrick Blanche (France); Ayinbire Alebna Blessmond (Ghana); Faye Boland (Ireland); Helen Buckingham (UK); Virginie Buisson-Delandre (France) ; David Burleigh (Japan) ; Kayleigh Campbell (UK); Ashley Capes (Australia); Eileen Connolly (Ireland) ; Mariela Coromoto Hernandez (Venezuela); Gurpreet Dutt (India) ; Solenn Emmvrique (Belgium) ; Gilles Fabre (Ireland) ; Marisa Fazio (Australia) ; Michael Flanagan (USA); Anton Floyd (Ireland); Jay Friedenberg (USA); Joshua Gage (USA) ; Tim Gardiner (UK) ; Pat Geyer (USA); Mark Gilfillan (UK); Rody Gorman (Ireland/Scotland); Eufemia Griffo (Italy); Tia Haynes (USA); Thomas Heffernan (USA); Mary Hind (Australia); Richard Holdsworth (UK); Gary Hotham (USA); Louisa Howerow (Canada); Marilyn Humbert (Australia) ; Clarissa Jakobsons (USA) ; Michel Jourdan (France) ; Kazumi Karaki (Japan); Mayumi Kawaharada (Japan); David J Kelly (Ireland); Alain Kervern (Brittany, France); John Kinory (England, UK); Nicholas Klacsanzky (Ukraine); Nina Kovačić (Croatia); Jim Krotzman (USA) ; Das Basant Kumar (India); Hervé Le Gall (France) ; Philippe Macé (France) ; Eadbhard McGowan (Ireland); Marietta McGregor (Asutralia); Paweł Markiewicz (Poland); Ben Moeller-Gaa (USA); Leanne Mumford (Australia); Mile Lisica (Bosnia-Herzegovina); Chen-ou Liu (Canada) ; Eric Lohman (USA) ; Martha Magenta (UK); Ursula Maierl (Japan) ; Paul Miller (USA) ; Ashish Narain (Philipines) ; Réka Nyitrai (Romania) ; Gail Oare (USA); Clodagh O'Connor (Ireland); Fionnuala O'Connor (Ireland); Theresa Okafor (Nigeria); Bernadette O'Reilly (Ireland); Maeve O’Sullivan (Ireland); Anđelka Pavić (Croatia); Martin Pedersen (Italy); James Meredith (Ireland); Philmore Place (Belarus); Keith Polette (USA); Praniti (India) ; Valentina Ranaldi-Adams (USA) ; Padraig Rooney (Switzerland); Bruce Ross (USA); Margaret Rutley (Canada); Ernesto P. Santiago (Philippines); Agnes Eva Savich (USA); Dan Schwerin (USA); Lola Scollard (Ireland); Shloka Shankar (India); Ram Krishna Singh (India); Tomislav Sjekloća (Montenegro); Nicholas M. Sola (USA); Srinivas S (India); Debbie Strange (Canada); Barbara Tate (USA); Tito (Japan); Charles Trumbull (USA); Djurdja Vukelic Rozic (Croatia); Julie Warther (USA); Margo Williams (USA); Kath Abela Wilson (USA).

 

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

A bit of food for thought (1)

Selected haiku and senryu

Essays and Articles

    On the haiku path  Patrick Blanche

    Translating Japanese poetry  Alain Kervern

    The notion of space in haiku  Danièle Duteil

    Haiku and Lyric Poetry  Amanda Bell

A bit of food for thought (2)

Selected haiku and senryu

The sources of haiku

   Kaneko Tohta                     

       Held in high ‘es’teem: the modern haiku poet  David Burleigh

       16 haiku by Kaneko Tohta

       Kaneko Tohta commenting on three of his haiku

   The Kodansha Saijiki: Early spring

A bit of food for thought (3)

Selected haiku and senryu

On the bookshelves

Editors

Contacts and next issue

Special Announcement: Haiku Contest

 


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