Isolation on Sherkin Island leads to widespread outbreak of haiku writing
Bernadette Burns of Sherkin Island: "as an artist, I love the quietness and awareness of nature all around us here"
Known as the 'island of the arts' because of its thriving artistic community and the BA in Visual Art that is taught there by the Technological University of Dublin (formerly DIT), Sherkin Island is very much the subject of a newly produced limited edition book of haikus.
Entitled Together Apart: Haiku from a locked down Sherkin Island, the book's Japanese haiku format, with its three lines in 17 syllables, is used mainly to describe nature and the changing seasons of this island off the Cork coast.
