1M I’m Vivien Eliades, born Vivien Powell on Christmas Day 1950 in Leicestershire in the front bedroom of my maternal grandmother’s terraced house. She was my rock during my early childhood, and taught me a great deal about the joys of life and to have gratitude for what we have – she was adopted and turned her sad story into … Read More

1 After several creative call outs on THE DAILY HAIKU these are the suggestions for what we are as creators of haiku and its many variations.  The second call out also included the aspiration to create a tea towel inspired by your ideas. And as always you excelled with oodles of insane creativity. Haiku writers does seem a little clunky … Read More

Introduction My name is Tom Fox. It hasn’t always been Tom Fox. But that’s for another time. 1 Brought up in a council house in West Cumbria with a millionaire’s view across the Irish Sea towards the Isle of man. This one view – which was mostly experienced too early in the evening having been packed off to bed, has … Read More

Introduction This Valentine week we are filled with LOVE and collaborating with the brilliant 64 Million Artist in setting their Weekly Theme. LOVE is one of our favourite themes and appeals across all age groups. The Challenge is still ongoing until Sunday evening and you can create a #LoveHaiku with hashtags #TheWeeklyChallenge and #64MillionArtists so your contribution is found. The … Read More

Sarah Davies is an ex web designer, now a lecturer and pastoral worker. Being born by the coast , she misses it living so far inland. She has been published in a range of poetry magazines and helps run a local poetry night, ‘Ouse Muse’.  Like many people, I found lockdown a novelty at first. Even though I was working … Read More

Introduce yourself (include any previous writing experience if any)? Greetings friend. My name is David E Navarro and  I am an author, poet-philosopher, essayist, editor, Bible teacher-minister, medical writer, research analyst, and tech editor who founded NavWorks Press to publish poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. I also founded the Pure Land School of haiku. This was for those who want to … Read More

Introduction This week at The Great Margin and The Daily Haiku we have been asked to set the Weekly Challenge (#TheWeeklyChallenge) for the marvellous and inspiring 64 Million Artists. No surprise it is to create a haiku with or without images around the theme of LOVE, one of our top ten all time favourites! Here are some ideas for creating … Read More

Watch This First 2da4defb-6f02-40cc-bfca-ca81dd8d713c Until I was asked to take over The Great Margin Twitter I had set up a personal Twitter account many moons ago and left it alone.  My original reason for the account had been to respond to a twitter message then after a few brief tweets I flew swiftly back to my comfort of words in … Read More

1 Just over a month to go until our first birthday on THE DAILY HAIKU.  Journeys is our final theme for this week and what a journey it has been! We have over 4500+ members worldwide and this month our stats are again up 15% with 5600 posts, 19200 comments and 97000 reactions. Through The Great Margin website here and Twitter … Read More

1 Hi, I’m Jenny Shepherd.  I’m in my early 60s, and have been writing poetry since I was about 12.  I won the junior section of the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society competition, when I was 17, but I sometimes feel it has been downhill ever since!  I was introduced to haiku in my mid-teens by my father, a professor … Read More