TALK: THE HAIKU MASTERS
Robert Hass is renowned for his versions of the 17th and 18th century haiku masters – Basho, Buson and Issa. With reference to their lives and to Japanese poetics, he’ll highlight their humour, clarity and immediacy.
Robert Hass was born in 1941 in San Francisco and is one of America’s most celebrated and widely-read poets. He served as US Poet Laureate (1995-1997) and is internationally recognised as a leading critic and translator, notably of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and Japanese haiku masters Basho, Buson and Issa. His most recent UK publication, The Apple Trees at Olema: New & Selected Poems (2011) received a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Aldeburgh will be his first UK appearance since 1976. more…
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