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Dermot O’Brien discovered haiku through a book of Basho’s haiku
translated in English in a library in Dublin.
Dermot lived in the UK and Spain but has since returned to Dublin and
now lives in Ferns, Co Wexford.
SMALL WORLD, his first collection of haiku, was written by the author
while residing at St Aidan’s Monastery in Ferns and the inspiration for
the poems comes from the life of prayer in the monastery and the
everyday life in the countryside surrounding the town of Ferns.
In an imperfect world, our consciousness of creation is not always as
clear as it might be. One of the purposes of prayer is to enable us to
become more aware of God, ourselves and our world. In a state of
perfect awareness everything would be understood. Like stepping stones
across a stream, the haiku offer a foot-hold in the flux of time, and a
pointer to God, the ultimate reality