With a nod and thanks to Alec Finlay for his inspiration
and superb renga book: shared writing: renga days
Slug and Lettuce renga
(see below)Renga Sabaki: Alan Summers
participants:
- June Hall
- Libby Houston
- Donald Gibson
- Linda Saunders
- Be Mattingly
- Lynette Rees
- Karen Hoy
Nijuin Renga
A renga is a series of very short verses, linked into one long poem, composed collaboratively by a group. 'Nijuin' means a 20-verse renga created by 20th Century renga master Meiga Higashi. He considered the Nijuin renga to be the shortest form that could be both contemporary yet capture some of the classic feel of renga.
There are three movements in Nijuin Renga: a four verse section; a twelve verse; and another four verse section. We started in Spring going through the seasons, as well as writing love, and moon verses, to end back in Spring.The intrepid rengaistas get their first few verses down:
Reflective rengaistas*
(*Alec Finlay's term for renga poets)
More thinking and working out a verse
that has to both link and shift!
Renga fun moments!
Although we look serious and reflective at times,
there was a lot of fun too, especially with the 'love verses'.
Action renga!
Last verse! Then some of us went on to Yen Sushi,
it's a hard life for rengaistas!
Nijuin Renga
A renga
is a series of very short verses, linked into one long poem, composed collaboratively by a group.
'Nijuin' means a 20-verse renga created
by 20th Century renga master Meiga Higashi. He considered the Nijuin renga to be
the shortest form that could be both contemporary yet capture some of the
classic feel of renga.
There
are three movements in Nijuin Renga: a four verse section; a twelve verse; and
another four verse section. We started in Spring going through the seasons, as
well as writing love and moon verses, to end back in Spring.
This was
composed jointly by the Poetry School workshop led by Alan Summers, which met
in the Slug & Lettuce Restaurant in Bath in April 2008.
four hundred species
nesting gulls–
leaves carved
in Bath Stone
demolition reveals
hills and archaeology
we've lost the moon
on the way
to the station
cherry muffin
or wasabi peas
ninety-three million miles
is too close
sometimes
cider-headed
stuck in the hedge again
collapsed
in the middle
of a banking crisis
warm tattoos
Harley lovers' engines purr
text me
fizzed the love heart
on my tongue
all the screens in Curry's
have gone dark
the imprint
of a departed leaf
on the pavement
bracken light
kipper smoke
in their window
the luminous goose
rivals the moon
breaking cups
screams below
tea time
limbs thrown
in the cauldron
fleecy vests wait
for the coming child
we are hiding
from chaos
behind the sofa
a really thorough
one-eighth spring clean
four hundred species
of dandelion
ready to tell the time
are cuckoos
allowed?
Renga
Sabaki: Alan Summers
Participants:
June Hall
Libby Houston
Donald Gibson
Linda Saunders
Be Mattingley
Lynette Rees
Karen Hoy
Breaking news as of May 2012:
Libby Houston wins major award:
The Linnean Society is one of the premier scientific societies in the
world, whose mission is the cultivation of the science of natural
history in all its branches.
Libby Houston is also a great poet:
Other poets:
June Hall:
Linda Saunders:
Lynette Rees:
Donald Gibson (St. Andrews University):
‘Pseudo-statement or Creative Misreading: What Happens to Science in Poetry?’ Karen Hoy works in TV Development and is a published haiku poet:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/karen-hoy-appears-in-major-new-haiku.html
Bea aka Be Mattingly is an adventurer and adores bikers.
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