Tag: Jane Reichhold
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Renga – Montage on Paper
Simply put, ‘renga’ is a cinematic poetry. It’s also a Japanese form of collaborative, linked verse, which intercuts between “panoramic view[s] of nature and human sceneries”[i] and thus has much in common with film. Both forms are authored by a group of contributors and both forms have a ‘director,’ (or leader) – in renga, this…
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An Introduction to Haiku – Compositional Techniques 2
Sense Switching “Sense switching” is a great technique for surprising and delighting the reader. A haiku poet might use it to engage the reader by introducing something unexpected in the poem or to connect two seemingly unrelated events or images. You can do this through careful placement of information across the phrase and fragment. Here,…
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An Introduction to Haiku – Compositional Techniques 1
Haiku can be tough to write, but they’re worth the challenge, and there are a few techniques that can help during composition. Juxtaposition The first technique you can take advantage of—and if you’ve read haiku you’ll have seen it often—is the use of juxtaposition. Jane Reichhold’s “phrase & fragment” theory is one of the most…
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