Open right now – submissions for a series on the Elements. The deadline has been extended to the end of January. You still have time to send in your work. Check the guidelines HERE.
Do join us for a Café Haiku book launch this Saturday, online on Zoom.
The date – 20 January 2024 at 7.30 pm IST
The Book – longing for sun longing for rain is by Cafe Haiku’s own editor Geethanjali Rajan, published by Red River and is available on Amazon.
You can scan the QR code or click on the link for the very simple registration after which you will recieve the zoom link. The link – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXb0u85HMxtbCCfji3HCBBKjXuzitCZ0g6Mc_fU7_7-F5tbw/viewform?usp=sharing
longing for sun longing for rain
Japan. The rice fields of Kerala. Hot, sweltering Madras. The winding Blue Mountains. Myths. Legends. Stories. You travel everywhere in this book. And yet, all the time, you are deep within. A conversation with moments, emotions and all that is rustled up inside, flows into the meditative penmanship of Geethanjali Rajan’s ‘longing for sun longing for rain.’ The prose is restrained, coming from years immersed in practise and understanding. The haiku and tanka pop with the freshness of spring grass in an endless meadow. At the end of the reading, you put the book down but it never leaves your head.
Dhaatri’s art carries the true essence of everything haikai—quiet, full, open and lingering. This is work that must be read, savoured and learned from. Stunning in its originality and rooted in humility, this is one of those books that will become dog-eared, annotated and turned to ever so often.
Shobhana Kumar
(Author of A Sky Full of Bucket Lists, Red River)
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