Haiku: The Gentle Art of Disappearing

Gabriel Rosenstock, poet, haikuist, playwright, writing in Irish and English, is the author/translator of over 100 books. He is a member of Aosdana, the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters. He has worked in theatre, radio, television, print journalism and book publishing. Some titles of note include his selected poems (from the Irish) Portrait of the Artist as an Abominable Snowman, from Domhan Books, New York; Forgotten Whispers, haiku and senryu (Anam Press, Cork); Signs of Rain: Irish Weather Wisdom (Appletree Press, Belfast); Irish Proverbs: in Irish and English (Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin) and the compilation A Treasury of Irish Love(Hippocrene Books, New York.) Recent volumes of poems in Irish are Syojo (Clo Iar-Chonnachta) and Eachtrai Krishnamurphy (Coisceim). A forthcoming volume of poems in English, Uttering Her Name, consists of love poems in the classical tradition of spiritual longing. A former Chairman of Poetry Ireland/Eigse Eireann, he is a member of The World Haiku Club and an Hon. Life Member of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association. He taught haiku at the Schule fur Dichtung (Academy of Poetry), Vienna in 2008. He has translated thousands of haiku and poems into Irish, including the selected poems of Heaney, Grass, Michele Ranchetti, Said, F X Alarcon, J H Hackett, Issa, Shiki, Buson, Santoka, John W. Sexton, Michael Augustin, Hansjorg Schertenleib, Peter Huchel, Georg Heym, Willem M. Roggeman, Andres Ehin, Zhang Ye, Georg Trakl, J P Tammen, Hilde Domin, Michael Kruger. Rosenstock has read his poetry and haiku in Ireland, Britain, North, South and Central America, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Australia and India. He contributes a haiku column to the newspaper LA. A new Selected Poems/Rogha Danta appeared in 2005 from Clo Iar-Chonnachta.