Sunday, January 23, 2011

Karen Hoy reading haiku at the Dylan Thomas Centre from the first Welsh haiku anthology: Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales




This fine anthology is still available at Gomer Press: https://www.gomer.co.uk/another-country-haiku-poetry-from-wales.html

Friday 18th March, 7pm:
Booklaunch  
Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales 
the first ever Welsh national anthology of haiku poetry:
http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/02/karen-hoy-appears-in-major-new-haiku.html

Karen Hoy will be reading from her work featured in the anthology at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.


Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales
Gomer Press
ISBN: 9781848513068 

Published by Gomer Press and edited by Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones and Lynne Rees, it features haiku, tanka, haibun and somonka – in both English and Welsh – by forty poets, from Wales's haiku pioneers.





Dylan Thomas Centre:

Free entry and wine, in association with Gomer Press.

Please RSVP: Lowri Walters at Gomer Press: lowriwalters@gomer.co.uk
by Wednesday 16th March latest.


Karen Hoy 
was born in Newport, and lived in Caldicot, Caerphilly and Cwmbran before moving to Hertfordshire.  

She is published by Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar; Presence magazine; and British Haiku Society Journal Blithe Spirit

Karen appears in My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications 2006); and was Highly Commended in the BBC Wildlife Magazine's Nature Writer of the Year competition (2009). 

In 2006 Karen founded the TV development company Gilded Lily.  She has previously worked on documentaries and wildlife films for the BBC, National Geographic, the Discovery Channels and other leading broadcasters. 


 

Karen is also published in the American/British haiku anthology:

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More about Karen: 








Karen Hoy is the Course Director (designer, manager) of Call of the Pagehttps://www.callofthepage.org/courses/


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1 comment:

  1. A nice picture of you, Karen, you're really looking well.

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