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To mark the publication of One Hundred Great Books in Haiku, we invited you to compose a haiku, containing 17 syllables and in the form 5-7-5, which captures the essence of your favourite book. Matthew Robertson of Beccles was our lucky winner with his Haiku of To the Lighthouse.
WINNER:
To the Lighthouse
Can we go today?
No, we'll make it tomorrow.
Or perhaps we won't.
Matthew Robertson
Beccles
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Roget's Thesaurus
You can look up words
And find other words that they
Mean the same thing as.
Matthias B. Watkins
Brighton
The Cronicles Of Narnia
King Of Beasts fights an
evil ice wiccan inside
bedroom furniture
Anthony Etherington
Coventry
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 the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan developed the haiku, an unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines, with the first line containing five syllables, the second seven, and the third five again. Now, in One Hundred Great Books in Haiku, David Bader has applied this ancient poetic form to
the classics. From Homer to Milton to Dostyevsky, the great books are finally within
reach of even the shortest attention spans!
To mark the publication of One Hundred Great Books in Haiku, we invite you to compose a haiku, containing 17 syllables and in the form 5-7-5, which captures the essence of your favourite book. The best haiku will be posted on the website and its author will receive a set of 10 Penguin Classics of their choice, to be selected from www.penguinclassics.co.uk. |
THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED.
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