Cheers John,

Sorry but I'll have to pass. I get a bit cross-eyed trying to work to poetic
forms and find it all extremely frustrating, but I wish all the very best
for the new venture.

Long live the small words.

Cheers,

Frank


>
>Hi Friends, I hope you'll forgive the priority flag on this it's just
>that... mumble, mumble.
>
>I've ranted on plenty about one of the less healthy disjunctures in the
>world poetic so this announcement won't come as any surprise.
>
>I very much hope you'll consider joining us in a new literary initiative:
>The World Haiku Club Poetry Bridge. (Who?)
>
>WHCpoetrybridge intends to do exactly what it says on the tin: bridge the
>rather odd gap that has arisen between 'oriental' and 'occidental' interest
>groups. The main platform will be a dedicated international mail group.
>
>The Bridge is a forum for syllabics that don't spring directly from haiku;
>forms like the tetractys, fibonacci, primes etc.
>
>The Bridge is interested in refrain forms like the pantoum and triolet. And
>not averse to the odd sonnet, or ghazal.
>
>The Bridge wants to develop linked and collaborative verse that might be
>neither renga nor round.
>
>The Bridge intends to be an access point for people with no experience of
>each other's specialisms.
>
>The Bridge will develop a comprehensive clearing house for information in
>all poetry fields: competitions, publications, venues, free lunches.
>
>The Bridge will publish its own pages in World Haiku Review and seek to
>engender work of the highest artistic standards. And all this with courtesy
>and humour!
>
>The Bridge will supply, free of charge, a top-of-the-range BMW sports car
>to the first person to give John Carley one million pounds sterling. Etc,
>Etc.
>
>Seriously though we do intend to make it happen. And do it well. If you're
>not too familiar with the range and quality of the wider World Haiku Club
>activities it's worth looking at the magazine World Haiku Review
>http://www.worldhaikureview.org. This is a genuinely international set up
>whose only agenda is the promotion of literature.
>
>I hope you'll want to get involved. We launch on the Feb the 14th (virtual)
>with a physical event in London on March 2. Because they're softies the the
>WHC lists are 'closed'. To sign on just mail me back off list, or on, and
>I'll arrange it. Or visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCpoetrybridge/
>and go to 'join'.
>
>Be there, or be rhomboidal! John
>
>Ps. If you've never written linked (multiple author) verse before this
>could be seriously interesting.




The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm


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