Maria Steyn, Norman Darlington and Moira Richards
A junicho renku in English and Afrikaans
Both versions by the authors
The Baker's Courtyard shortening days so refreshing, keep out! one trail of footprints this bitter sea biofuels suck our food blue wildebeest Sleeping Beauty starts his feminist how trivial all that seems a picnic basket every star the chance |
Die Bakker se Binneplaas korter dae
— so vervrissend los my uit! een ry voetspore hierdie bitter see bio-brandstof suig ons kos blouwildebeeste Die Slapende Skone sy feministiese dit alles, so onbenullig 'n piekniekmandjie elke ster die kans |
Participants:
Maria Steyn: verses 1, 4, 7, 11
Norman Darlington: verses 2, 5, 8, 10
Moira Richards: verses 3, 6, 9, 12
English version first published in moonset: Literary Newspaper,
USA, Autumn/Winter 2008, Edition 4 Number 2.
Afrikaans version first published in Vuursteen: Tijdschrift voor haiku,
senryu en tanka, Netherlands, Winter 2008, Jaargang 28 nummer 4.
Moira Richards lives in South Africa and hangs out here www.darlingtonrichards.com and here www.redroom.com/author/moira-richards.
Maria Steyn lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a BA Honours degree in Philosophy, but followed a career in language teaching which took her to Soweto in the mid-eighties, and thereafter to various private schools. Her tanka and haiku have been published in numerous international journals and anthologies.
Co-founder of Darlington Richards Press and co-editor of Journal of Renga & Renku (both with Moira Richards), 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.