Indo-Irish Haiku Fest
Priti Paul Invites You to the Indo-Irish Haiku Fest
(talks, discussions, readings, chai and more ... with Ambai and Gabriel Rosenstock).
Gabriel Rosenstock: Poet, haikuist. Recently anthologised in Best European Fiction 2012 (Dalkey Archive Press) and Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W W Norton 2013). Author/translator of over 170 books, mostly in Irish.
He has brought out haiku volumes in Irish by J W Hackett (USA), Jack Kerouac (USA), K. Ramesh (India), Kala Ramesh (India), Petar Tchouhov (Bulgaria), J W Sexton (Ireland), Janak Sapkota (Nepal). He has published his own haiku in Irish Géaga Trí Thine and in English “Where Light Begins”. Responded to photography of Ron Rosenstock (USA) in The Invisible Light, haiku in Irish, English, Spanish and Japanese. Two books on haiku as a way of life from Cambridge Scholars Publishing are Haiku Enlightenment and Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing.
K Ramesh writes haiku, tanka, and free verse. His poems have appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron's Nest, Acorn, American Tanka, Mainichi Daily Haiku, Wisteria, Magnapoets, Snapshots, Presence, Paper Wasp and in several poetry anthologies. His collection of haiku titled, Soap Bubbles, was published by the Red Moon Press. Ramesh has his haiku in - Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W W Norton 2013). He teaches at The School, (Krishnamurti Foundation India) in Chennai, India.
Kala Ramesh discovered haiku in 2005 and feels she's addicted to this art form since day one! She also writes in related genres like, tanka, haibun, senryu, and renku. Her book titled Haiku brought out by Katha in December 2010 was awarded the Honourable Mention for Best Book for Children: The Haiku Society of America’s Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards. Her collection of tanka poems, the unseen arc was the winner of the Snapshot Press eChapbook Award 2012 (UK). Recently anthologised in Haiku 21: an anthology of contemporary English-language haiku (Modern Haiku Press, 2012) & Haiku in English - the First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton 2013).
KALA RAMESH discovered haiku in 2005 and feels, she's addicted to this art form since day one! She also writes in related genres like, tanka, haibun, senryu, and renku. Recently, she was asked to write a feature on Haiku in India for a reputed haiku journal, A Hundred Gourds, published in June, 2013.
Her book titled “Haiku” brought out by Katha in December 2010 was awarded the Honourable Mention for Best Book for Children: The Haiku Society of America’s Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards. Her haibun: The Blue Jacaranda, won the Genjuan International Haibun Contest 2012 (Japan), her collection of tanka poems, “the unseen arc”, was the winner of the Snapshot Press eChapbook Award 2012 (UK). She has her poems in Haiku 21: an anthology of contemporary English-language haiku (Modern Haiku Press, 2012) & in Haiku in English - the First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton 2013).
The Katha-Oxford Bookstore Haiku Fest
Priti Paul invites you to the Indo-Irish Haiku Fest talks. discussions. readings. chai & more with Ambai & Gabriel Resonstock.
Date: 21st September, 2013
Venue: Oxford Bookstores, Churchgate. Mumbai
Time : 11 am to 1 pm.
FIRST Katha book of haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun
Editors: Kala Ramesh, Johannes Manjrekar and Vidur Jyoti
Art work by Surabhi Singh
An afterword by Tracy Koretsky
Published by Katha, September 21st, 2013
Rogha Haiku and Tanka by K. Ramesh
With Irish language versions by renowned poet, haikuist and translator: Gabriel Rosenstock
Published by Original Writing Ltd.Dublin
Haiku and Haibun by Kala Ramesh
Art work by Vandana Bist
With Irish language versions by renowned poet, haikuist and translator: Gabriel Rosenstock
Published by Original Writing Ltd.Dublin
The information for this page has been contributed by Kala Ramesh, poet.