Sunday, March 11, 2012

Tribute to NZ haiku poet Cyril Childs


The Tingling Catch blog has just posted a tribute to NZ haiku poet Cyril Childs (1941-2012) who died in January this year.

Childs was a promising cricketer for Otago U20s, Otago U23s and Southland in the early 1960s and has his own player page at the Cricket Archive in England with match details: 


And from the New Zealand Poetry Society


 http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haikushowcase/cyrilchilds

On this page is a sampling of his haiku, as well as a link to the tributes that were received as news of his death spread through the haiku community both nationally and internationally.

He was a good man and is much missed.

At the time of his death his biography of his uncle (also Cyril Childs, a veteran of the Crete campaign) was under contract with a publisher and his son, Norris, and daughter, Lia, are seeing it through for him.

backyard cricket
Dad and I pick up
the kitchen window

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