EUI Haiku Competition Winners 2022
Many wonderful Haiku were sent in to this competition 2021/2022. Thank you to everyone who participated.
It was truly difficult to choose a winner, but after much deliberation by our wonderful panel of judges, here they are! Each topic has a winning Haiku, as well as a runner up.
You can read the winners' names here, as well as the winning poems.
Then sit down with a cup of tea and read all the other wonderful EUI Haiku written by your friends and colleagues.
Note to the poets: we have only published the names of those who gave us explicit permission. If you recognise your haiku and wish your name to be attached to it, contact
[email protected].
And the winners are...!
First Place: Roberto Larrañaga
Runner up: Roberto Larrañaga
First place: Vigdis Evang
Runner up: Michiel Tegelaars
The winner Haikus
Life in Italy
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Tea leaves used to boil,
Filling the room with thick steam.
The moka growls now.
Roberto Larrañaga
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Your EUI experience
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Lotus flowers bloom
from the dark of garden ponds
where all minds wonder
Anonymous
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World affairs
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your foot fails to land
between this past and present
a step is missing
Vigdis Evang
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Runners up
Life in Italy
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A cormorant fans
Wings, dripping on the Arno
Lives, on trains, rush by
Anonymous
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Your EUI experience
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Hitzen mendiak,
Ez dut irakurri nahi.
Igo ditzagun!
Translation form Basque:
(Mountains of words,
I do not want to read them.
Let's climb them instead!
Roberto Larrañaga
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World affairs
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East, West, North and South
Are indistinguishable
Fog envelops us
Michiel Tegelaars
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Special Mention
Other Haiku received a special mention:
Life in Italy
For its compelling imagery and perspective shift:
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A cormorant fans
Wings, dripping on the Arno
Lives, on trains, rush by
Anonymous
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Life in Italy
For its depiction of the fleeting nature of human life:
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marble, not mirrors
will retain the memory
of pale olive skin
Anonymous
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Life in Italy
For its Dionysian celebration of life:
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Chianti I sip
Or Montepulciano
In bursts Lambrusco
Shubha Prasad
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Your EUI experience
For its imagery, story, and openness to interpretation:
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Glistens the dark ink
as the morning mist retreats –
clamour in the hall.
Federico Diana
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World affairs
For the important message of peace it carries with it:
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Tensions mounting fast
May Russia and West let go
Antagonisms past
Michael Sanfrey
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The process of choosing the winning Haiku
Your Haiku were judged by a jury of five people from across the EUI community:
- Deirdre Curtin, Professor, LAW
- Zala Pavšic, Max Weber Fellow, HEC
- Belén Rodríguez Moro, PhD researcher, ECO
- Marcus Hagley, PhD researcher, SPS
- David Scott, staff member, ICT Service
All the Haiku were rendered anonymous by three members of the Haiku Organising Committee (Nicola Hargreaves, Giulia Rivieri and Takuya Onoda) before being sent to the jury. The other member of the committee, Svitlana Lebedenko and the moderator of the jury, Fergal Treanor, only saw the Haiku after they had been made anonymous.
Each member of the jury read all of the anonymous Haiku, and ranked them within their category. They then met to discuss, debate, and deliberate the Haiku they believed met the criteria of beauty and perceived authenticity.
Page last updated on 25 March 2022