A fantastic article by a Nobel Prize-winning poet, here Seamus Heaney discusses haiku at length and relates it to the Old Irish poetic tradition as well as discussing its contemporary value.

Worth everyone's attention, whether your interest lies in haiku or other poetics.

Article: [link]

Seamus Heaney: [link]

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For those who are not so familiar with the haiku form and, indeed, even those who are, I have got a couple of links here which should either help you get your head around haiku a little better, or make you reassess presumtions you may already have. Both are short, and both pack a lot of interesting ideas in. The opinions in these articles don't wholly reflect my own, but you can rest assured that both are respectable articles. So take a look at the following:

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A third article, much longer, which does a great deal to elucidate the fundamentals of haiku:

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Other useful sources of information on haiku include:

Laurence55s extensive collection of discussions on haiku and related forms in his journal entries, extending a long way back: [link]

Solarts recent essay on haiku structure: [link]

And my own older journal entry entitled "Pointers for new haijin".

Best to you all.