Estonian haiku

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The Estonian haiku is a newer form of poetry developed in Estonia , the lines of which are shorter than those of the Japanese haiku . While the traditional haiku counts 5 + 7 + 5 syllables, the three lines of an Estonian haiku have only 4 + 6 + 4 syllables.

The Estonian poets Asko Künnap , Jürgen Rooste and Karl Martin Sinijärv published the book "Eesti haiku" in 2010, the first work with Estonian haikus. In his foreword to the book, the editor Jürgen Rooste defines the field of activity and the future of the Estonian haiku as follows: “The Estonian haiku consists of three verses with 4 + 6 + 4 syllables, so a total of 14 syllables. In Estonian haiku, essential or existentially central aspects of Estonian life, being and nature are expressed in laconic words. Estonian haikus are written in the decade of the twenty-first century and beyond, until the end of our linguistic and literary world. ”According to the preface, this quote comes from a previously“ unwritten book on Estonian poetry ”.

After the first anthology with Estonian haikus, the first collection of haikus translated into Finnish appeared at the 2011 Turku Book Fair under the title “Aika sattuu. Vironhaikuja. ”(It hurts a lot / Time passes. Estonian haikus.) The translator Hannu Oittinen coined the term“ Vironhaiku ”as a Finnish name for the poem form.

In October 2012 the book “Assamallan asemalla. Vironhaikuja. ”(At the Assamalla train station. Estonian haikus.) By Hannu Oittinen. This was the first volume with Estonian haikus originally written in Finnish, but it also contains Estonian-language guest poems and linguistic experiments. As far as is known, it is the first book in the world to be published in Hellinna (a twin city made up of Helsinki and Tallinn).

In 2011, a writing competition for Estonian haikus was held at the Helsinki Book Fair, when Estonia was the country focus of the fair. Some Estonian haikus have been published in the Estonian literary magazine Looming. There is a Vironhaiku group on Facebook, consisting mainly of Finnish and Estonian members.

Anthologies

  • Asko Künnap, Jürgen Rooste, Karl Martin Sinijärv: Eesti haiku. Näo Kirik, Tallinn, 2010. ISBN 978-9949-21-073-2 .
  • Asko Künnap, Jürgen Rooste, Karl Martin Sinijärv. Aika sattuu. Vironhaikuja. Palladium Kirjat, 2011. ISBN 978-952-9893-67-6 .
  • Hannu Oittinen: Assamallan asemalla. Vironhaikuja. Näo Kirik, Hellinna, 2012. ISBN 978-9949-9172-6-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Asko Künnap, Jürgen Rooste, Karl Martin Sinijärv: Eesti haiku. Tallinn: Näo Kirik 2010, p. 17.