The 2nd Tokyo Poetry Festival & the 6th World Haiku Association Conference
World Haiku Association Anthology 2011
Author: Ban'ya Natsuishi & World Haiku Association
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shichigatsudo (Tokyo, Japan)
Pub. Date: 9 September 2011
Cover Design: Kuniharu Shimizu
Price: 10 US dollars
Non-Profit Organization World Haiku Assocoation
Missions & Articles (Japanese & English)
Greetings from the Director: Ban'ya Natsuishi (Japanese & English, Japan)
Message: Dimitar Anakiev (English, Slovenia), Jean Antonini (French & English, France), Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah (English & Japanese, Ghana), Jim Kacian (English & Japanese, USA), Santosh Kumar (English, India), Valentin Nikolitov & Romanian haiku poets (English and Haiku in Romanian, French & English, Romania), Suzie Palmer (English, Australia)
Haiga: Zoe Savina (Greece) & Toni Piccini (Italy) Kuniharu Shimizu (Japan)
Haiku: Ferenc Bakos (Hungarian English & Japanese, Hungary), Kunihiro Buma (Japanese & English, Japan), Doc Drumheller (English & Japanese, NZ), Yutaka Hasegawa (Japanese & Spanish, Japan), Kika Hotta (Japanese & English, Japan), Hideki Ishikura (Chinese, Japanese & English, Japan), Kiyoko Iwabuchi (Japanese & English, Japan), Sayumi Kamakura (Japanese & English, Japan), Toshio Kimura (Japanese & English, Japan), Hideaki Matsuoka (Japanese & English, Japan), Chiaki Nagamine (Japanese & English, Japan), Hiroshi Nagatsuka (Japanese & English, Japan), Tadato Nakatsuka (Japanese & English, Japan), Ban'ya Natsuishi (Japanese, English & Spanish, Japan), Chiau-Shin Ngo (Taiwanese, Japanese & English, Taiwan), Shinji Noya (Japanese & English, Japan), Kornelijus Platelis (Lithuanian, English & Japanese, Lithuania), Yo Tanaka (Japanese & English, Japan), Yuko Tange (Japanese & English, Japan), Saisei Tsuboi (Japanese & English, Japan), Judit Vihar (Hungarian, English & Japanese, Hungary), Houbu Umesawa (Japanese & English, Japan), Chuei Yagi (Japanese & English, Japan), Ichitaro Yamamoto (Japanese & English, Japan) & Somin Yoshida (Japanese & English, Japan).
The 2nd Tokyo Poetry Festival & the 6th World Haiku Association Conference Program (Japanese)
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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