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WHC Global Haiku Tournament 2002

April - June 2002 on WHCtournament

A Message to the WHC Global Haiku Tournament Team Member from Doris Kasson:

The World Haiku Tournament is about to begin. Team participants, judges, spectators and cheerleaders are ready to go.  I have heard from a number of team contestants who report that they have been working together  (no mean feat) to  ensure  lively and challenging bouts for our enjoyment.

On behalf of  "a whole bunch of us"  I would like to send some sunshine and a thank-you to  them for their efforts along with wishes for "Good Luck." Doris Kasson

READ THE HAIKU & RENKU SUBMISSIONS
FOR MATCH 1, SESSION 1

TEAM 1: SHICHIFUKUJIN - HAIKU & RENKU SUBMISSIONS

TEAM 2: THE 7 SAMURAI - HAIKU & RENKU SUBMISSIONS

PRESS RELEASE:

As Japan prepares for the Soccer World Cup haiku poets around the world are preparing for the First World Haiku Tournament organised by the World Haiku Club.

Four teams with seven international haijin in each team will battle it out for the title of World Haiku Tournament Champions.

The names of the four teams are (click to visit their webpages):

The first match will be on the 27th of April at 12 noon GMT+1 (British Summer Time). Each team will be set 2 kigo and a hokku. Each team member will write three haiku - two using the kigo and a freeform haiku. Each team will write a 12 stanza renku-maki using the set hokku. the "renku-maki" means that whilst link and shift will apply strict rules of position and content (eg moon, love and blossom) won't.

So we shall have 42 haiku and two twelve stanza renku pitted against each other to delight. thrill and move us in each match.

I therefore announce that the first fixture will take place on 27th April 2002 and is:

                             Shichifukujin Vs Seven Samurai

The second fixture is on the 25th May and is:

                    Pointed Radishes vs Tapping Woodpeckers

The teams are in training preparing themselves for their haiku endeavours
words issuing secretly back and forth across the oceans as they practise
their renku and haikai skills. We look forward to the ripe fruits of these
activities and to meeting the teams as they prepare! Good luck to all of
them!

You can meet the teams at their individual websites:

The Seven Samurai:

 http://www.haikai.org/7samurai/index.html

Tapping Woodpeckers:

http://www.haikuworld.org/tappingwoodpeckers/

Pointed Radishes:

whcght_radishes/pointed_radishes.htm

Spectators can take part in an online discussion of the poems and renku submitted to each fixture and will have a chance to vote for their favourite haiku in the popular voting section. We will all learn more about haiku as the teams battle it out during the three hour windows of time that are the actual matches and also from the Judges comments - whose decisions won't please everyone but whose knowledge of haiku ways will provide a river of knowledge that we can all taste in its flowing by

The Tournament mailing:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCtournament/

See the Schedule of Events at Mitty Abe's Interactive Photohaiku:

http://www1.neweb.ne.jp/wa/inter-arts/


http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/photohaiku/index.htm

 


 World Haiku Tournament Director

(more information can be obtained from the director - including interviews at )

 

CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THE WHC TOURNAMENT IN WORLD HAIKU REVIEW

(See Last Year's "Mock Haiku Tournament" Pages & Winner)

 

 
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