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Time's Barter Haiku and Senryu
At their best, these haiku - full of rain, land clouds, plums and (like the Japanese) cherries, domestic life, city vistas and uncliched vignettes of the abundant nature for which his land is renowned - richly exemplify the three defining features which Tony Conran has isolated as the essence of haiku: 'loneliness, tenderness and slenderness'. Then there are the characteristic attributes of brevity, concision, simplicity, presence, sensory directness and present-tense immediacy.
There's a quality of profound attention, often to minutiae and a sharpness of observation mediated by down-to-earth, unembellished language. The quality of his haiku writing has already been recognized in Wales, where the leading cultural magazine Planet: The Welsh Internationalist has recently published in its pages a selection of his haiku. One looks forward, now, to seeing what ripples they might make on the still youthful haiku scene of India.
There's a quality of profound attention, often to minutiae and a sharpness of observation mediated by down-to-earth, unembellished language. The quality of his haiku writing has already been recognized in Wales, where the leading cultural magazine Planet: The Welsh Internationalist has recently published in its pages a selection of his haiku. One looks forward, now, to seeing what ripples they might make on the still youthful haiku scene of India.
140 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2015
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About the author
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
16 books34 followersKynpham Sing Nongkynrih is the winner of the Shakti Bhatt Prize 2024. He was born and brought up in Sohra, Meghalaya, and writes poetry, drama and fiction in Khasi and English. His latest works are "The Distaste of the Earth" (Penguin India, longlisted for the JCB Prize 2024 and shortlisted for the Kerala Literature Festival Book of the Year Award 2024) and the 1024-page debut novel, "Funeral Nights" (Context/Westland Amazon for India; And Other Stories for the UK-US). He is the author of "The Yearning of Seeds" (HarperCollins), "Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu" (HarperCollins), "Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends" (Penguin) and the co-editor of "Late-Blooming Cherries: Haiku Poetry from India" (HarperCollins), Lapbah: Stories from the Northeast (Penguin) and "Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from Northeast India" (Penguin).
He has published poems and stories in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Wasafiri, The New Welsh Review, PEN International, The Literary Review, Karavan, The Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Cordite Poetry Review, Poetry International Web, The Indian Quarterly, Down to Earth, The Hindu Business Line, Indian Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, Pilgrim’s India, Day’s End Stories and others.
His other awards include the first North-East Poetry Award (Tripura, 2004), the first Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award for tribal literature (Madhya Pradesh, 2008), a Tagore Fellowship (IIAS, Shimla, 2018), the Bangalore Review June Jazz Award (2021) and the Sparrow Literary Award (2022). He teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
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He has published poems and stories in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Wasafiri, The New Welsh Review, PEN International, The Literary Review, Karavan, The Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Cordite Poetry Review, Poetry International Web, The Indian Quarterly, Down to Earth, The Hindu Business Line, Indian Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, Pilgrim’s India, Day’s End Stories and others.
His other awards include the first North-East Poetry Award (Tripura, 2004), the first Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award for tribal literature (Madhya Pradesh, 2008), a Tagore Fellowship (IIAS, Shimla, 2018), the Bangalore Review June Jazz Award (2021) and the Sparrow Literary Award (2022). He teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
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February 4, 2025
my first kynpham singh nongkynrih in English!!
I've read his works in my mother tongue i.e. in Khasi however this is the first one of his works in English.
I find it very delighting as a local reading his works and connecting to most of the things he has written.
Its funny, relating and beautiful to be able to connect and see his thoughts and observations in his everyday life.
It's a fun read !
I've read his works in my mother tongue i.e. in Khasi however this is the first one of his works in English.
I find it very delighting as a local reading his works and connecting to most of the things he has written.
Its funny, relating and beautiful to be able to connect and see his thoughts and observations in his everyday life.
It's a fun read !
November 24, 2018
"progress—
the hills will flatten
because of you."
the hills will flatten
because of you."
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