Crannog 29

Cover Image, This is the Story, Hazel Walker

I have two haiku in Crannog 29.  Crannog is edited by Tony O'Dwyer, Jarlath Fahy, Sandra Bunting and Gerardine Burke. 

Short stories in this issue are written by Valerie Sirr, Niamh Boyce, Nuala Ni Conchuir, Meg Tuite and Michael J. Whelan, to name a few authors.  Liam Duffy, Miceal Kearney, Honor Duff, Noel King, Libby Hart, Alan McMonagle, Clare Sawtell and Mary Melvin Geoghegan have poems included.

I don't have a favourite yet as I have to read the magazine again but a friend particulary enjoyed Nuala Ni Conchuir's story and Honor Duff's poem.  I love the title of Niamh Boyce's story, "Since I Became a Monster."

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Crannog 29

Ouroborous - The All is One

Crannog 29 will be launched in the Crane Bar, Sea Road, Galway on Friday, 24th February at 6.30 pm.  I am delighted that I will have a haiku poem included in this lovely publication.  I've been practising writing haiku since Novemeber.  I do NOT claim to be any sort of expert on haiku writing.  I've read some articles on how to write the form so I have been trying to put theory into practice.  There is a lot more to this art than meets the eye.  Generally use 17 syllables or less in some alignment, traditionally of 5-7-5.  Use a seasonal word (kigo).  Divide your haiku into two distinct parts in which images are juxtaposed.  Haiku is a way of life, a way of thinking, but then poetry is a way of life, it is, just as you are.  Wrting haiku takes lots of practice, even years of practice.  And of course I have read some of the masters.

A handle

On the moon -

And what a splendid fan.

Sokan

Scooping up the moon

In the wash basin,

And spilling it.

Ryuho

In the shallow river,

On hands washing the saucepans,

The spring moon.

Issa

What pains I took,

Hanging the lamp

On the flowering branch.

Shiki