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  • Haikai Talk

    Haikai Talk

    Haikai Talk is an unmoderated discussion group and mailing list. Membership is open to everyone with a serious interest in haikai in the English language. While haikai is taken to mean haiku, haibun, senryu and renku (haikai-no-renga), the scope of the group is such as to include all poetic forms originating in Japan and written […]

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  • The Plenitude of Emptiness by Hortensia Anderson

    The Plenitude of Emptiness by Hortensia Anderson

    The first (and very well-received) title from Darlington Richards, available through Lulu.com

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  • Journal of Renga & Renku: Call for content

    Journal of Renga & Renku: Call for content

    Hello! We're ready to begin accepting offers of content for the second issue of Journal of Renga & Renku.

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  • The Plenitude of Emptiness

    The Plenitude of Emptiness

    If haibun didn’t exist, it’s possible that Hortensia Anderson would have had to invent it. Once in a while, if we’re lucky, we stumble upon something that is exactly right for us, perhaps only for a moment, perhaps for a lifetime, but something that fits us so well as to seem custommade.

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  • The Renku Group

    The Renku Group

    An internet space for the composition and discussion of collaborative poetry of Japanese origin, in the manner of Matsuo Basho and his followers.

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  • Announcing the ‘Journal of Renga & Renku’

    Announcing the ‘Journal of Renga & Renku’

    Following on the success of The Renku Group and the resultant growth of interest in this centuries-old poetic genre, we are pleased to announce our intention to publish a Journal of Renga & Renku.

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