Norman Darlington

Haiga in Irish and English
Irish translation by Gabriel Rosenstock

Ramadan —
the muezzin wakes
the lazy rooster

Co-founder of Darlington Richards Press and co-editor of Journal of Renga & Renku, Norman Darlington lives on a hill in rural Ireland, raising vegetables, chickens and children. He’s been enchanted with haikai since first reading Hiroaki Satō’s 100 Frogs more than 30 years ago. Having been involved in numerous intercultural renku exchanges, he is convinced of the overarching good which collaborative linked verse can bring. Some of his published poetry can be found at Xaiku.com.