Write On! Features: A Brief Introduction To Haiku by Jilly Henderson-Long
By Jilly Henderson-Long
There's something timeless and precious about Haiku. It isn't just its brevity and simplicity; it's its sensuousness, its profundity, and – most of all – its relevance to now, even in those written hundreds of years ago.
Its origins lie in 17th-century Japan and it's closely linked to Zen, ...