Custard creations!
Mick Haining has set up an exhibition of haiku in Barlby Library. Pictured is on of his haiku made with holly berries.
AN EXHIBITION with a difference is currently on display at Barlby Library.
The work is the brainchild of 66-year-old Mick Haining, who lives in Barlby, and involves haiku - a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture.
Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form and Haiku poets write about everyday things includinge nature, feelings, or experiences.
Mick, who is originally from Donegal, spent most of his career as a drama teacher and for 23 years teaching drama at Brayton High - retiring six years ago.
He told the Selby Times: “People have been writing haiku from further back than Shakespeare but, as far as I know, no-one else in the world does them as I do – this may be a Selby exclusive!
“Haiku are concerned with how everything changes – that’s in the nature of whatever is alive, including ourselves – we cannot hang onto time, we have to drift with it.
“So I don’t just write haiku, I create them out of things that reflect the changing nature of existence – I’ve made them, for example, out of sand, driftwood, cherry blossom, chocolate, snow, pennies, leaves, holly berries, lentils, breadcrumbs and even custard... and everybody knows custard doesn’t hang around!
“I photograph them and then often leave them for nature to do the rest – I did pick up all the pennies, however.”
His exhibition is on display until Barlby Library closes for Christmas on Saturday, December 22.
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