Friday, June 27, 2008

Poetica - Haiku part two

This from the ABC newsletter:

POETICA
Saturday 28/6/2008 15:00 (3pm)
Thursday repeat 3/7/2008 15:00 (3pm)
Australian Haiku - Part 2, produced by Ron Sims
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/stories/2008/2267053.htm
In Poetica's two-part feature, program producer Ron Sims asks: what is it about the Haiku that commands so much time and effort in creating a thing so small? The answer reveals a private world of passion, dedication, honesty and wry humour from writers who produce a Haiku a month to those who produce in their hundreds. The Haiku poem is a tiny 'window-on-life' opening up for the reader an often startling vision of the nature of the world... or of their own nature. As the writers explain, the Haiku really 'takes off' when the tiny spark they set up catches alight with a surprising brilliance in the reader's mind.
Peter Holland, Jodie Buzza and Murray Dowsett read a couple of hundred Haiku along with discusssions with Haiku writers across Australia.

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