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\u2022 Maggie West says “After \u2022 Maggie West says “After I had been writing short poems for some years, I discovered haiku while studying formal western-style calligraphy. In 1992, I became a member of The British Haiku Society and was thereby introduced to other forms of Japanese poetry. Working mainly with inks and other water-based media, I have always enjoyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24107,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/24107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI had been writing short poems for some years, I discovered haiku while
\nstudying<\/span> formal western-style calligraphy. In 1992, I became
\na member of The British Haiku Society<\/span> and was thereby
\nintroduced to other forms of Japanese poetry.<\/span> <\/span>Working mainly
\nwith inks and other water-based media, I have always enjoyed 'mark
\nmaking'; transforming<\/span> the tactile working surface using many
\ntypes of brushes, pens, quills and sticks as necessary.<\/span> I try
\nto make my handwriting on the haiga as legible as possible without
\nbeing formal.<\/span> As I come from a 'western art' background, my
\nwork is not traditional in the Japanese sense; however,<\/span> I try
\nto be true to the spirit of haiga.” For more information visit Maggie's website at www.maggieonthebeach.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"