Originally posted on Carousel Creates:
Following their success in 2013, Maeve O’Sullivan and Kim Richardson return to Carousel Writing Centre in the beautiful Dublin Mountains, for a two day workshop combining Haiku poetry with Mindfulness practices. Wikipedia tells us that Haiku is… …a short poem which uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an…
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