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poetrypea.com presents a workshop on the emergence of haiku in the poetry of the German speaking world, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The podcast covers the period after the Paris World Fair of 1896 to the Second World War.

Links:
Wolfschütz Stephan, The development of haiku in Germany in the 20th century until today

Wittbrodt, Andreas, Hototogisu is keine Nachtigall, V&R Press, 2005

Sommerkamp Sabine, Das deutschsprachige Haiku

Peter Jastermsky reads Split Sequences

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Poems from today’s podcast:

Lend me your arms
Fast as thunderbolts
For a pillow for my journey

Hendrik Doeff (1777 – 1835)

A water lily
Emerges from the depths –
Rippling water

Paul Ernst, trs Patricia McGuire

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Ezra Pound, Poetry, 1913

lute, sing your song:
the wind chases away spring and blossoms.
the moon weeps in the reeds.

Hans Kanzius, Trs Patricia McGuire

Small moths tumble shuddering across the box;
This evening they die and will never know
that it wasn’t spring”

Rainer M Rilke, Trs P McGuire

Mary nurses the Christ child
And behind her on a rope
Nappies billow in the wind

Franz Blei, 1925, Trs Patricia McGuire

Five continents tremble,
When the grain prise rises:
And not when you cry

Yvan Goll, 1927, Trs Patricia McGuire

fallen blossom
returning to the branch?
ah, no—a butterfly

Moritake, Tr. David LaSpina

The leaves of ivy –
all of them quiver
in the autumn wind

Kakei (17th-18th century), trs Hoshino Tsunehiko and Adrian Pinnington

S7E4 How did haiku poetry arrive in Europe and what happened before WWII, a case study of Germany in English.