Cafe Haiku is proud and excited to organise our first book launch – K Ramesh’s latest book, a small tree of tender leaves
K Ramesh is a prolific poet who has been the inspiration for many of us with his vivid, minutely observed nature haiku.
The session will begin with the book release and the reading of some haiku from it. Then the floor is open for questions, comments or discussions. This is your chance to interact with a master of the haiku form.
Do join us on Sunday!
I came across K Ramesh’s haiku, early in my journey into the form that will continue to hold me in its tender palms, forever.
evening calm…
the sound of pencils
sketching on the cliff
I think the strength of his haiku lies in observing the minutiae. His ‘shasei’ (sketches from life) always leave me awestruck. And thus it is with a lot of love and barely-contained joy, that we (Café Haiku) present our first ever book launch.
Parish Tiwari
The Details
Date – 19th Jul 2020, Sunday
Time – 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Platform – Zoom
Please fill out this very simple form and we will send you the link – https://forms.gle/CX7j2kNdHPMMXxYp6
Look forward to seeing you there.
Special Feature, every day till Saturday
As a build up to the book launch this blog will carry a special feature all week – beginning Monday to Saturday. We will carry one haiku from the book each day and Ramesh will comment on each one, telling us about the process by which a poem comes into being.
Don’t miss this special feature.
About the poet
K Ramesh writes haiku, tanka, and free verse. His poems have appeared in Indian and International journals that cater to free verse and Japanese forms of poetry. Some of his works have been included in the following magazines and anthologies:
Magazines: Presence, The Heron’s Nest, Mainichi, Mayfly, Acorn, Wednesday Haiku (Lilliput Review), Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, Frogpond, Wales Haiku Journal, The Mamba (African Haiku Network) and NHK (Haiku Masters), Narrow Road, CHO, Sonic Boom Journal
Anthologies:
- muttering thunder – an annual of fine haiku and art vol 1 edited by Allan Burns, photographs by Ron Moss
- muttering thunder – an annual of fine haiku and art vol 2 edited by Allan Burns, photographs by Ron Moss
- montage a haiku gallery edited by Allan Burns
- The Wonder Code: Discover the Way of Haiku and See the World with New Eyes edited by Scott Mason
- Nest Feathers: Selected Haiku from the First 15 Years of The Heron’s Nest.
- A Congregation of Cows: Moo Haiku edited by Robert Epstein
- Select Indian Poets-published by Select Book House, Bangalore
- 100 Great Indian Poems-edited by K. Abhay, published by Bloomsbury India
- The Signature Haiku Anthology edited by Robert Epstein
He is the author of two collections of haiku :
1. Soap Bubbles
2. from pebble to pebble
He teaches Physics at Pathashaala, a J Krishnamurti Foundation school located near Chengelpet.
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