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The haiku enterprise in New Zealand, a country of spectacular natural beauty inhabited by just under five million people, is characterized by a small but very active community of devotees. The first contacts with Japanese haiku typically occurred through the studies and translations of British and American scholars.
In 2014 New Zealand’s population stands at just over 4 million people, and only a handful of these are poets who write haiku. The movement of people and ideas from overseas countries to these islands is one of the
In 2019 New Zealand’s population stands at just under 4.8 million people, and only a handful of these are poets who write haiku. The movement of people and ideas from overseas countries to these islands is one of the givens of history. It is not surprising that haiku has also travelled on these journeys.
Archives comprise Essays, Articles, NZ Haiku Showcase. and Haiku Commentary.
31 paź 2019 · Several mainstream poets in New Zealand have, or do, occasionally write haiku. Very few get near the real thing.
They are the largest of the surviving New Zealand songbirds, with a weight of around 230 grams. We may never know why Bernard Gadd chose the kokako as the emblem of the journal. Perhaps it is the Japanese sound of the bird’s name, kō-ka-ko.
15 gru 2019 · NEW ZEALAND. We first featured poems and haiku history from around the world from January 2015 through the end of 2017, and are now sharing them again, both to remind you of the richness of the genre worldwide, and also to inspire you to update and improve your country’s haiku offering.
