an open field: river 2012

Wednesday

river 2012 - 25

the old stories we find
along the banks of the wild brook
leaf-mulch, fresh rain

2 comments:

Jules26 January 2012 at 01:45
my (piece of the) creek perhaps once was wild and perhaps still is wild, while the suburbs try to tame it...
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Lynne Rees27 January 2012 at 00:46
Thanks for commenting Jules. This wild brook's true name, in Welsh, is the 'ffrwydwyllt' - it sounds much tamer in English.
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About me

I am the author of a novel, The Oven House, a collection of poetry, Learning How to Fall, Messages, a volume of short, collaborative prose, a psycho-geography of my hometown in South Wales, UK, Real Port Talbot (Seren Books), and The Hungry Writer, Stories, Recipes & Writing Prompts, based on my blog of the same name.

I started working with haiku forms - haiku, senryu, tanka, rengay and haibun - in 2006, acted as the haibun editor at Simply Haiku during 2008 and 2009, and was co-editor, with Jo Pacsoo, of the British Haiku Society's Haibun Anthology, The Unseen Wind (2010). In 2011 I was joint editor, with Nigel Jenkins and Ken Jones, of another country, haiku poetry from Wales (Gomer Press) and one of the adjudicators for the haibun section of the inaugural British Haiku Award.

During 2014 and 2015 I was submissions and commissioning editor, along with Bob Lucky, at CHO: Contemporary Haibun Online and my haibun collection, forgiving the rain, is available from Snapshot Press, Britain's leading independent publisher of haiku writing.