Ginyu No. 51 July 2011 Editor: Sayumi Kamakura
Speech Text
Stupidity and Poetry: Ban’ya Natsuishi (in English)
Meeting Report
The 6th World Haiku Association Japan Conference: Kuniharu Shimizu (in Japanese & English)
Essay
Tenchi no Hyojo 37 –The Sun: Sayumi Kamakura (in Japanese)
Featured Haiku Poems
Infinite Disintegration: Ban’ya Natsuishi (in Japanese & English)
Haiku Poems
On Fresh Snow: Kornelijus Platelis (Lithuania, in Lithuanian, English & Japanese)
The Coffin of the Throat: Kerry Shawn Keys (Lithuania & USA, in English & Japanese)
The Day of the Dead: Jack Galmitz (USA, in English & Japanese)
One Tree: Suzie Palmer (Australia, in English & Japanese)
The Shining Frogs: Toni Piccini (Italy, in Italian, English & Japanese)
Hito no Koe: Rei Hatano (Japan, in Japanese)
The Bells of Heaven: Yuko Tange (Japan, in Japanese & English)
Mizu Karakuri: Fumiko Sato (Japan, in Japanese)
Genkyo: Akikatsu Kayo (Japan, in Japanese)
Suigyu: Yuji Matsumoto (Japan, in Japanese)
Sora Utsu Taiko Doon Don: Somin Yoshida (Japan, in Japanese)
Touzou Shichigon Niku Isshou: Hideki Ishikura (Japan, in Chinese & Japanese)
Songs for Spring: Toshio Kimura (Japan, in Japanese, 3 haiku in English)
Kubi Nekko: Ichitaro Yamamoto (Japan, in Japanese)
M9: Hiroshi Nagatsuka (Japan: in Japanese)
Yama no Kami Hi no Kami: Tsukako Shiraishi (Japan, in Japanese)
Glittering: Sayumi Kamakura (Japan, in Japanese & English)
Here in Japan: Kika Hotta (Japan, in English & Japanese)
Fumiko Kaido (Japan, in Japanese), etc.
Ginyu Haiku Gallery
Maki Hayakawa (Japan), Slobodan Cekic (Serbia).
Ban’ya Natsuishi, master of contemporary haiku and trailblazer at home on the overflowing haiku mountain of life, offers the world - Hybrid Paradise, a collection of his recent, liberating work. In 2009, I wrote a review in a book for him, The Poetical Achievements of Ban’ya Natsuishi, understanding the honour of casting my views on such outstanding haiku. Again, I am thrilled to be involved in the process of expounding works of this incredible author, who has been a great influence in forging ahead with my own style of muki-haiku (seasonless poem technique)! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbZXWtmNYo
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