Originally Posted by
Hes
I agree with you about Wing Beats HHH. I have been reading the notes at the back and there is quite a bit about using the birds' names as seasonal words (that haiku are supposed to contain). I disagreed with their list somewhat. They have curlew down as a winter word and, for me, its about summer but that's to do with where I live. It's a mine field methinks. I also think the haiku were written prior to the book idea coming into being so probably they existed on their own and needed the birds' names but it does come across as a bit clunky in the anthology at times.
Some of the haiku were quite mediocre, I thought, but then a few of them are wonderful, really evocative. It did make me think that you, Derby Tup, Stef, myself and many others have written equally good (if not better) birdy haiku at times. Anyway, I am feeling inspired by that fact.