NZ Poetry Day 2019
spring arrives
even birds
tidy nests
Ruth Arnison contacted me to ask if my haiku could be paired with a Dunedin Artist to create a response to the poem. Ruth facilitates the very worthwhile Poems in the Waiting Room poetry cards initiative (you can see more of what Ruth does at [email protected]).
The intention is that the resulting postcard showing the poem of one side and the art in response on the other side will be given to each patient at Dunedin Mercy Hospital with their lunchtime meal trays on National Poetry Day. The original artworks are to be on display and for sale at Mercy Hospital for a two week period in August.
Of course I agreed and artist Sheryl McCammon responded to my haiku by painting a birdhouse which Ruth had asked the guys at the Dunedin Menzshed to build. It is very cool and I think everyone should have one!
Acknowledgments to Ruth and photo used with permission
All poetry © Steven Clarkson 2019 (no reproduction or other use of any work in whole or in part without prior written permission from the author)
spring arrives
even birds
tidy nests
Ruth Arnison contacted me to ask if my haiku could be paired with a Dunedin Artist to create a response to the poem. Ruth facilitates the very worthwhile Poems in the Waiting Room poetry cards initiative (you can see more of what Ruth does at [email protected]).
The intention is that the resulting postcard showing the poem of one side and the art in response on the other side will be given to each patient at Dunedin Mercy Hospital with their lunchtime meal trays on National Poetry Day. The original artworks are to be on display and for sale at Mercy Hospital for a two week period in August.
Of course I agreed and artist Sheryl McCammon responded to my haiku by painting a birdhouse which Ruth had asked the guys at the Dunedin Menzshed to build. It is very cool and I think everyone should have one!
Acknowledgments to Ruth and photo used with permission
All poetry © Steven Clarkson 2019 (no reproduction or other use of any work in whole or in part without prior written permission from the author)