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TIME’S BARTER : HAIKU AND SENRYU
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About the book
At their best, these haiku – full of rain, land clouds, plums and (like the Japanese) cherries, domestic life, city vistas and uncliched vignettes of the abundant nature for which his land is renowned – richly exemplify the three defining features which Tony Conran has isolated as the essence of haiku: ‘loneliness, tenderness and slenderness’. Then there are the characteristic attributes of brevity, concision, simplicity, presence, sensory directness and present-tense immediacy. There’s a quality of profound attention, often to minutiae, and a sharpness of observation mediated by down-to-earth, unembellished language.The quality of his haiku writing has already been recognized in Wales, where the leading cultural magazine Planet: the Welsh Internationalist has recently published in its pages a selection of his haiku. One looks forward, now, to seeing what ripples they might make on the still youthful haiku scene of India.
Pages: 168
Available in: Paperback
Language: English
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He is the author of Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends
(2007), The Yearning of Seeds (2011), Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu (2015), Funeral Nights (2021) and the co-editor of Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from Northeast India (2009). His haiku have appeared in journals such as Wales Haiku Journal, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Simply Haiku, World Haiku Review, Cattails, Presence, The Heron’s Nest, Asahi Haikuist Network, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Muse India, Kavya Bharati, The Yearning of Seeds, Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. His awards include the first North-East Poetry Award (Tripura, 2004),