Established in 2006
Events, Publications, News
The Irish Haiku Society is a not-for-profit organisation promoting the writing and appreciation of haiku in Ireland. It organises readings, ginko, workshops and other haiku-related events.
The Irish Haiku Society, founded in
September 2006, is an association of haiku poets. The Irish Haiku Society organises
haiku meetings, readings, book-launches, workshops, ginko and other
haiku-related events. Workshops The
Irish Haiku Society announce (across
the road from the entrance/bridge to Bull Island)
Ginko The
Irish Haiku Society will conduct a ginko (an
organised haiku-writing walk/excursion) in Blackrock / Booterstown
a
Haiku Workshop
with
the poet Anatoly Kudryavitsky
held
in the C.A.S.A. Bookshop (above Restaurant TenFourteen)
324
Clontarf
Road, Clontarf, Dublin 3
on
Monday 14th May 2012 at 7pm
Admission
free
For
further
information e-mail irishhaikusociety [at] gmail.com
on Saturday,
8th October, 2011 at 12 noon
The meeting point
is outside the main entrance to Blackrock Dart Station
Everybody is very
welcome to join us! Writing haiku in the course of a
ginko is not in the least obligatory
For further details please email:
irishhaikusociety [at] gmail dot com
Haiku Readings
The Launch of
the Polish issue of Shamrock Haiku Journal
Friday
29th May 2009 in the Irish Polish Society
20
Fitzwilliam Place (off Leeson St.), Dublin 2
at
7.30pm
This
issue is focused on Polish haiku but also has an ample international
section, including works by Irish haijin (haiku poets).
The
line-up for the evening includes
Sharon
Burrell, Patrick Chapman, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Walter Daniel McGuire,
Terry O'Connor, Hugh O'Donnell, Siofra O'Donovan, Martin Vaughan,
Aisling White
Also,
a native speaker of Polish will recite the original Polish poems
alongside the English translations published in Shamrock.
Admission
is free, and the Irish-Polish house provides refreshments.
For
further details please email:
irishhaikusociety[at]gmail.com
Publications
Haiku Collections by Irish
Poets
Published in
Ireland
1. Michael
Hartnett. Inchicore Haiku. Raven Arts Press, 1985
2. Dermot
O'Brien. The Living Now. Kamac Publications, 1994
3. Gabriel
Rosenstock. Cold Moon: Erotic Haiku. Domhan Books, 1999
4. Sean
Brophy. Elegy and Other Poems. Rainsford Press, 2003
5. John W
Sexton. Shadows Bloom. Doghouse Books, 2004
6. Tony
Curtis. Crossings: 21 Bridges. Design Factory, 2004
7. Dermot
O'Brien. Small World. Veritas, 2004
8. Gilles
Fabre. Because of the Seagull. Fishing Cat Press, 2005
9. Maeve
O'Sullivan (with Kim Richardson). Double Rainbow. Alba Publishing, 2005
10. Gabriel
Rosenstock. Géaga Trí Thine. Comhar Teoranta, 2006 (haiku in Irish)
11. Anatoly
Kudryavitsky. Morning at Mount Ring. Doghouse Books, 2007
12. Dermot
O'Brien. Seasons of Light. Veritas, 2010
13. Maeve
O'Sullivan. Initial Response: An A-Z of haiku moments. Alba Publishing,
2011
14. Anatoly
Kudryavitsky. Capering Moons. Doghouse Books, 2011
Published
outside Ireland
1. James
Norton. Words on the Winds. Waning Moon Press (Portsmouth, England),
1997
2. James
Norton, Sean O'Connor (with Ken Jones). Pilgrim Foxes. Pilgrim Press
(Aberysthwyth, Wales), 2001
Shamrock
Haiku Journal
of the Irish Haiku Society
edited by Anthony (Anatoly) Kudryavitsky
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