Gabriel Rosenstock, born 1949 in postcolonial Ireland, is a poet, haikuist, tankaist, and novelist with over 180 books published. Recent titles include the comic detective novel My Head is Missing (Evertype, 2016) and the ekphrastic haiku volume Judgement Day (The Onslaught Press, 2016) in response to the collages of the anti-Nazi artist Kurt Waldmann. Among his awards is the Tamgha I Kidmat medal for services to literature. He blogs at http://roghaghabriel.blogspot.ie/
Emptiness, his collaborative collection with American photographer Ron Rosenstock, is available from Long Exposure Press here.
His series as Writer-in-Residence for Long Exposure will see him responding through haiku to a range of photography from around the world, teasing out their narratives, ideas, and resonances.
glaonn préachán . . .
aghaidh scriosta
an té a raibh grá againn di
a crow calls . . .
the shattered face
of someone we loved
go neamhshuntasach aige . . .
fás aon oíche
unobtrusively
finding its own space . . .
mushroom
tá nithe feicthe anseo
things have been seen here
for which there are no words . . .
Barnabaun
ceo ó na cnoic
ach is glé í súil an bhradáin –
Abhainn na hoirimhe
mist from the hills
but the salmon’s eye is clear –
Erriff River
among other beings . . .
the curlew’s cry
spéartha suaite . . .
the old world
grows older
they have become clouds
returning
cé a rianódh
conair an anama . . .
gan tús gan chríoch
who can trace
the spirit’s path . . .
no beginning, no end
caonach . . . léicean
nithe a fhágann an croí
stróicthe
moss . . . lichen
things that tear
at the heart
worlds . . .
these fragile worlds
of our making
their meditations
muintir
an domhain . . .
síormhachnamh
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