ORKNEY RENGA: 2009

Thursday, 24 December 2009

A new publication from The Renku Group

Announcing 'The Renku Journal'

Following on the success of The Renku Group (http://renkugroup.proboards.com) and the resultant growth of interest in this centuries-old poetic genre, we are pleased to announce our intention to publish The Renku Journal.

This exciting new journal will be devoted to all aspects of renku. It will be published and edited by Norman Darlington and Moira Richards, and will launch during 2010. It will include scholarly articles, poems, discussions, contests, critiques and more.

Send an email to therenkujournal@gmail.com to sign up for notices of our progress reports, calls for content, and other news about The Renku Journal.

Norman Darlington
Moira Richards

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

New Orker

Milk to Mercury

Three Orkney Winter Nijûin Renga

ISBN 978-1-907508-01-1

Brae Editions

edition of 300 copies @ £3.50

25 with an archival pigment print of the cover image (135mm sq) @ £25.00

Now available from

The Orcadian Bookshop, Kirkwall

The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness

Stromness Books and Prints

Waterfront Gallery, Stromness

Word Power Books, Edinburgh

http://braeprojects.com/shopsite

Links

Norman Darlington has been in touch from Bunclody in Ireland with news of two websites that have a renga connection:

Norman himself is the Renku Editor at Moonset Literary Newspaper: http://www.moonset.us. He'd be happy to consider submissions for inclusion in their twice-a-year print publication.

He also says that if anyone's interested in discussion and/or online composition of renga, they might like to take a look at The Renku Group, a forum created recently of which he is co-owner, at http://renkugroup.proboards.com. 'With over 70 members ranging from absolute beginners to those with several years' experience, we have 11 poems of varying formats currently being written, and plenty of lively discussion.'

29 November 09

8 November 09

31 January 2010

28 February 2010

Monday, 26 October 2009

Cuppa for the huckoohaikublogger - well done!

Sunday, 25 October 2009

link

http://www.simplyhaiku.com

November Renga

We'll meet on November 1 10am at Huckoo, Rendall, KW17 2HA. Thanks again to Sylvia for her invitation.

(This is me trying to get the hang of blogging. Anyone who can help, please get in touch or just do what you know how to. I have now emailed invitations to Alison, Clare, Fiona, Frances, Gemma, John, Laura, Lesley, Lucy, Lynn, Morag, Nalini, Pam, Rosie, Sandra, Sylvia and Yvonne. All of those are thus entitled to be authors, so can post and so on. The blog is open to everyone in the world to see at present, but we can make it by invitation or keep it all to ourselves.)

Alistair