I thought it would be fun to collect haiku, senryu, what-have-you, that use Basho’s famous ‘splash’ haiku as their starting-point. Feel inspired? If not please feel free to send in anything else that occurs to you between now and the end of the month.
Anything not immediately used will be held in the zen reservoir.
MM
… to everyone who has visited and commented recently. I must apologise for not having had the opportunity to greet each one of you personally. Rest assured your visits and comments are welcome and appreciated.
Currently I am in the process of sending out some invitations for contributions to the Summer 2012 Showcase. Shortly after that I will be throwing the door open. Watch this space.
MM
The Spring 2012 showcase is now published. Either click here to view it or hover your cursor over the ‘Experience’ tab above. It is an extremely visual showcase this time. Enjoy.
MM
I would be grateful for any comments about the relative merits of publishing books in print and/or in e-book form. Please click here for the original blog entry on the subject.
Thank you.
MM
We are now accepting submissions for the Spring and Summer 2012 Showcases of the zen space. I am looking for original haiga and haiku preferably. Any submissions not used in Spring or Summer 2012 will be held for later consideration.
MM
Publicity for the Winter 2012 showcase has been achieved by electronic ‘mailshot’, which has resulted in about four hundred hits in a day and a half. I am hoping that in future this intrusive canvassing will not be necessary. Could I encourage anyone who has found visited and enjoyed these pages to subscribe to or follow the blog.
By the way, here is a link to the site of our resident artist Marie Taylor.
MM
I must apologise for not mentioning the following two items in the Winter 2012 showcase – it was an oversight.
Firstly there is a new book out called Nothing More Happens in the 20c: Haiku Dangers. It’s by Gary Hotham and you can read a little about it here.
Secondly here is a web page devoted to links to a number of on-line and print journals of haiku, haibun, etc. There’s one omission – no prizes for guessing – but I have alerted the site owner and asked if he would kindly include the zen space.
The Winter 2012 showcase is now published. Either click here to view it or hover your cursor over the ‘Experience’ tab above. It has been a great pleasure for me to read through the haiku and other offerings; I have selected some gems and held back some gems for later.
MM
Submissions from invited writers have provided sufficient material for the Winter 2012 Showcase. I am sorry to disappoint anyone who had hoped to take the opportunity of an open invitation to submit something on this occasion. However, I hope to devote one Showcase – maybe Spring or Summer 2012 – entirely to speculative submissions. In any case I never turn away submissions that turn up unexpectedly. Such submissions always delight me and provide a reservoir of haiku and related writing for the zen space.
Although the zen space was created principally to allow words to convey the moment, the effect of the visual is not ignored. I am therefore seriously considering devoting space in a future Showcase to traditional and modern haiga, and indeed any zen writing combined with a visual image.
Thank you for reading and supporting the zen space.
MM
The zen space will soon be accepting submissions for the Winter 2012 Showcase. Invitations will go out shortly to a number of writers. Watch this space for our opening submissions to all-comers, probably early December 2011.
MM
