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Editor's Note
In this issue the Long Exposure project continues to explore the possibilities of acheiving a synthesis between the textual and the visual, bringing together two fundamental ways in which we understand the world.
Contemporary engagement with traditonal forms in this area, such as Haiga, is rich and continuing, and it has been highly gratifying to have the opportunity to share in the dedication and craftsmanship still directed towards them.
What is striking about these forms is their continued relevancy, the haiku, for example, prompting us to consider our experience in concise bursts; to move towards not only representing the experience in words, but capturing something of the experience itself. Here, haiku has proven to be a therapy, a test of skill and a useful daily writing excercise, which produces a necessesary concentration and clarity.
It is this technique of close attention which will continue to produce poetry and other creative work which is attunued to our own time and surroundings, and able to capture what is most immediate and most essential.
Daniel Williams
Editor