Author: Simon Hanson

A new international anthology of haiku & senryu has just been released. Jumble Box, edited by Michael Dylan Welch and featuring the art of Ron C. Moss contains work from 100 poets. This anthology grew out of the many submissions to the National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo) received in February 2017 including selections from seven Australians; Belinda Broughton, Samar Ghose,   Jayashree  Maniyil, Marietta McGregor,  Rowena McGregor, Ron C. Moss and Rosemary Nissen-Wade.

In the introduction, Opening the Jumble Box, Michael Dylan Welch writes; “One of my favorite quotations about haiku is by R. H. Blyth: “Haiku is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature.” This observation reminds us that haiku points to a source. . .  The following poems emerged as some of the best from many thousands written for NaHaiWriMo in 2017. I shared a short list of about 400 selections with Tasmanian artist Ron C. Moss, who chose one poem for each day of the month. In response, he  created twenty-eight original haiga—a painting for each poem he selected, with the poem added in calligraphy. He also created the cover art, and suggested the book’s title, from a poem by Greg Longenecker. Surely the many ways we write haiku are like a jumble box—and as with a box of chocolates, you never know what you’ll discover.”

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