Haiku Bindii

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On 6 October we will be meeting at the Kiosk in Rymill Park at 2 pm for a ginko. See our Meetings Page for details.

The Bindii Group met at the Box Factory for a haibun workshop presented by Belinda Broughton. Belinda distributed notes, which included examples of haibun, and briefly discussed the origins of the form and the requirements for writing haibun, such as issues of style and tense, how many haiku should be included and what topics were suitable. She pointed out that this is a developing form in English and that a wide variety of styles, lengths and topics are both written and published. The group then practiced experimental writing of haiku to fit in with prose examples that Belinda provided. These examples she felt leant themselves to the haibun style of writing. Members of the group composed haiku for different paragraphs of the prose and the final results were   written on the whiteboard so we could share and comment on our efforts. The comments focused on how the suggested haiku fitted with the prose and how they could extend the meaning of the prose. For the last part of the...

We have shifted the Challenges to their own page. You are welcome to try out your poems there. Our members are starting their own individual pages. See the list of Members Pages in our sidebar.

Any Japanese poetry genre: haiku, senryu, tanka etc. 1. I nspiration through nature, looking forward to spring, and witnessing the early signs of spring 2. Sport (plenty of inspiration with the Olympic games on at the moment)

As I post there have been no entries for the June Challenge. This is a sad state of affairs. Maybe it has been too cold and wet for haiku and tanka poets to get about, use their hearts and intellect. As I look out the window the weather seems in a state of uncertainty, waiting for something to occur: rain, wind, sun? Tanka challenge: change, uncertainty, the unexplicable. Interpret as widely as you wish. Haiku Challenge: warmth. Again interpret as widely as you wish. Seasonal or non seasonal are acceptable.

Two challenge topics: 1. winter 2. shelter