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Newsletter July 2005 New Zealand Poetry Society Te Hunga Tito Ruri O New Zealand Poetry Society Newsletter PO Box 5283 July 2005 Lambton Quay WELLINGTON New Zealand Poetry Society Patrons Dame Fiona Kidman Vincent O’Sullivan Te Hunga Tito Ruri o Aotearoa President Gillian Cameron With the Assistance of Creative NZ E-mail Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa [email protected] and Lion Foundation Website www.poetrysociety.org.nz ISSN 1176-6409 When we stop fixating on personal concerns, we can give ourselves over to the world. For writing haiku this means This Month’s Meeting being completely in tune with our environment, whether we’re walking down a busy street or talking quietly with James Brown and Geoff Cochrane a friend. will read Wellington poems and talk about being writers strongly influenced they spoke no word, by living in Wellington. the host, the guest and the white chrysanthemum At Museum of City and Sea 21 July 7.30pm Ryota 3. Emptiness Haiku and Zen When Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen, was asked, ‘What is the fundamental teaching of Buddhism?’ he Richard von Sturmer replied, ‘Vast emptiness and nothing holy.’ This Since the Middle Ages, Zen Buddhism, with its emphasis revolutionary statement has reverberated down through on simplicity, naturalness and austerity, has been a the ages, and its truth is now confirmed by quantum predominant force in Japanese culture. We will look at physics. Atoms – the basic stuff of the universe – are nine qualities inherent in Zen and how these qualities 99.999 percent emptiness. That is the way things are. relate to the writing of haiku. And we need to be empty so that the things of this world can reveal themselves to us. 1. Oneness midnight – no waves, no wind Zen teaches that people’s suffering arises from a sense of the empty boat is separation, from feeling ‘alone and afraid in a world I flooded with moonlight never made.’ The practice of haiku can dissolve this Dogen feeling of separation by enabling us to experience the unity of our own nature and the nature of everything 4. Suchness around us. As Bashō wrote in a letter to a disciple, ‘Learn about pine from the pine, and about bamboo from Tathatā is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘suchness’. The great the bamboo. The poet should ... enter into the object so mystery of the universe is that out of fundamental that the poem forms itself when the poet and object emptiness arises such a staggering variety of forms. As become one.’ Yasutani-roshi, a modern Zen teacher, puts it, ‘The original face of universality moves briskly in detailed the sound of hail— particulars.’ I remain, as before, an old oak the spring is cold – Bashō the puppeteer keeps coughing 2. Intimacy Suiha Intimacy means not pulling back, but drawing nearer, and with haiku we’re always drawing close to things. peeling pears— 5. Uniqueness sweet juice drips R H Blyth affirms that ‘Haiku record what Wordsworth from the knife blade calls those ‘spots of time,’ those moments which for Shiki some quite mysterious reason have a peculiar significance.’ Haiku also celebrates the uniqueness of 9. Responsiveness ordinary things and, at the same time, shows how that uniqueness contains the universal. We live in a dynamic universe and we are called on to respond. As haiku writers, we respond to the world spring rain— through our writing. Haiku, by revealing the hidden a rat is lapping affinity between things, confirms the interconnectedness the Sumida River of all life. Issa each time the wave breaks the raven 6. Impermanence gives a little jump This world is astonishingly mysterious and beautiful and Nissha sad because it is constantly changing. Nothing lasts; everything is in a state of flux. The truth of The raven becomes one with the waves, and we return to impermanence does not diminish but rather enhances the where we started in our list of Zen qualities. uniqueness of each thing, each person. Life is precious because it is so fleeting. Haiku poets, perhaps more than Richard von Sturmer is an Auckland poet who has lived any other group of writers, are reporters on the transitory in the Rochester Zen Center in New York. nature of this world. the owner of the cherry blossoms From the Editor turns to compost for the trees There are days when it’s impossible to get away from Utsu (his death verse) poetry. If you walk past a primary school, you’ll hear chanting in the playground. Any approaching train or 7. Naturalness truck will be carrying the rhythm of a Tuwhare poem. If In both Zen and haiku there is an appreciation of the you’re lying awake in the middle of the night with your unadorned, the worn and the weathered. When writing eyes on stalks, you’ll turn on the radio and hear haiku, we pay attention to what is usually overlooked, to Hinemoana Baker’s programme ‘Waiata’ followed by what is on the margins, to what people so easily miss in the Marine Weather Forecast. The days when you are the hustle and bustle of daily life. Naturalness means ambushed by poetry at every corner are not always the being one with nature, and in harmony with the seasons best days, but on the other hand, they are the days to be and our own changing circumstances. most thankful for. Here’s a poem (stolen from Janette Winterson’s website) by one of my favourite poets, Carol the wind brings Ann Duffy. The last two lines of the poem refer to the enough fallen leaves Shipping Forecast. to make a fire Ryōkan Prayer Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer 8. Attentiveness utters itself. So a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare One day a layman said to Ikkyu, ‘Master, will you please at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift. write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom?’ Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth Ikkyu took his brush and wrote the word Attention. ‘Is enters our hearts, that small familiar pain; that all?’ asked the man, ‘Will you not add something then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth more?’ Ikkyu then wrote Attention Attention. ‘Well,’ in the distant Latin chanting of a train. remarked the man rather irritably, ‘I really don’t see Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales much subtlety in what you’ve just written.’ Then Ikkyu console the lodger looking out across wrote the same word three times: Attention Attention a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls Attention. Half angered, the man demanded, ‘What does a child‘s name as though they named their loss. that word ‘attention‘ mean anyway?’ Ikkyu answered, Darkness outside. Inside the radio’s prayer – Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre. ‘Attention means attention.’ This dialogue about sums it up: haiku is the art of paying attention. Carol Ann Duffy New Zealand Poetry Society © June 2005 Editor: Lynn Davidson, [email protected] 2 From the Committee all genres.’ Beattie is joined on the panel by Wellington writers and critics John McCrystal and Laura Kroetsch. BREAKING NEWS: The future of the New Zealand The poetry finalists for the Deutz Medal are: Poetry Society’s Wellington public events programme Fool Moon by Murray Edmond (published by Auckland has been saved: Neil Furby will run the Wellington University Press) meetings. Details to be announced soon. Nice morning for it, Adam by Vincent O’Sullivan (published by Victoria University Press) MONTANA POETRY DAY: To celebrate Montana The Red Tram by C K Stead (published by Auckland Poetry Day in October, the Society will create Poetry on University Press) the Pavement: a series of 12 poems chalked on the pavement in Wellington’s central business district. The key dates are: Poetry postcards will also be given away. We want to Friday, 15 July 2005 Voting for the Readers Choice curate a range of poems and poetic fragments that best Award closes at 5pm represents the diversity of Wellington City. Friday, 22 July 2005 Montana Poetry Day AWARD: The Society is proud to announce that the Winner of Deutz Medal Poetry second Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry Category announced (supported by the NZPS) will be presented at the ‘Five New Zealand Poets’ reading of the Christchurch Arts Monday, 25 July 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Festival – Applaud 2005. You can view this at: Awards ceremony in Wellington http://www.artsfestival.co.nz Tuesday, 26 July 2005 Winners event at the Westpac OTHER NEWS: We are very pleased to advise members St James Theatre is open to the that the second AGM had well over a quorum and public elected a new president, James Norcliffe, and committee members: Gillian Cameron, Kathryn Carmody, Neil For further information contact Sandra Noakes, Media Furby, Laurice Gilbert, Harvey Molloy and Margaret Co-ordinator, Montana New Zealand Book Awards Vos. New annual membership rates were approved: $25 2005, phone 09 411 9908, mobile 027 228 7013, or for individual membership and $35 for joint membership email:[email protected] at the same address. The overseas annual membership www.montananzbookawards.co.nz rate will be $35. These rates will be effective from 1 April 2006. The last quarter has seen continued improvements to Montana Poetry Day 2005 the Society’s newsletter and website. Finally, The New Zealand Poetry Society is proud to present two competition judging is now underway. The AGM was exciting Wellington events for Montana Poetry Day followed by an excellent panel discussion and readings 2005: from Harry Ricketts, Anna Jackson, Chris Orsman and Thursday, 21 July, 7.30pm, Museum of Wellington Stephanie de Montalk.
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