Information Services celebrated World Book Night on 23rd April in the Hugh Owen, Thomas Parry and the Physical Sciences Libraries with a hugely successful haiku competition. Entrants were treated to free cake and biscuits at our stalls, and the haikus were judged by IS staff members Simon French and Ywain Tomos.
For more information on World Book Night, visit: http://www.worldbooknight.org/
And the winners are...
Thank you very much to all who took part in our World Book Night celebrations this year. We received over ninety entries, and were delighted by the quality, inventiveness, and humour displayed. The winners of the competition, each receiving a set of three books and a £10 student union voucher, are as follows:
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Llythrennau'n llithro
Dros dudalen a chyffro
Sy'n deffro delwedd
(Linus Band)
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Shadows from old pages
Light cast on forgotten space
Ancient ghosts emerge
(Kit Kapphahn)
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Gweld y byd trwy lyfr
Tocyn rhad i wledydd pell
A hawdd dychwelyd
(Ian Owen)
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Nose deep in a book
Loud conversation floats past
Concentration lost
(@coryborytortis)
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Llith a llun a llyfr
Tawelwch yn teyrnasu
Sgwennu, gweld a darllen
(Llinos Roberts-Young)
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I know that I’ll crave
This much reading time when those
Jobs I read for come
(Frances Morgan)
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The judge for the English language entries, Simon French, had this to say:
'As someone not given to hyperbole, I would describe the haiku competition that we ran for World Book Night on the 23rd April as an outstanding success! From across our three libraries, and via Twitter, we received a total of 89 entries in five different languages (Welsh, English, French, Korean and Latin).
I’m guessing that chocolate cake in return for a haiku may have acted as an inducement but even with this in mind, there was a great deal of enthusiasm for the competition.'
Thanks to everyone who submitted haiku (each will receive a book) - all entries listed below:
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Nose deep in a book
Loud conversation floats past
Concentration lost
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Self return receipts
Flutter to the library floor
Like cherry blossom
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Old book man slumbers
Surrounded by slow decay
In long lost ages
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Collected knowledge
Echoing enlightenment
Whispers of promise
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Oh! Librarian,
Cry not over my late book,
I shall pay my fines!
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I know that I’ll crave
This much reading time when those
Jobs I read for come
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Read in Hugh Owen
Have Dickens on beanbag
Keats among the birds
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Wikipedia?
Books are more reliable!
To the library!
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In darkest corners ~
Books quiver, pages flutter ~
Stories come alive
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Writing a haiku
Without planning the last line
Is not a good id-
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Old book dust gives me
Irritable vowel syndrome
New lungs needed
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(Latin version of ‘lines on the Llyfr Du’)
Umbra ex cartis
Neume exeuntur
Lucis tenbris
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On murmure içi
seules les pages qu'on tourne
ont voix ou chapitre
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En lieu de travail
Je vais ecrire un haiku
Pour gagner gateaux
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Rheolau syml
Cofiwch. Fyfyrwyr annwyl
Llyfrgell = dim swn
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Bant a ni rwan
Amser i weithio'n galed
I'r llyfrau a ni
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Ble mae'r gwr heddi
yn yr llyfrgell meddwl
fellai gwyriad
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Am lyfrgell, waw!
Hugh Owen, y lle i fod
I weithio, bendant
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gwaith, gwaith, mwy o waith
llyfrau a traethodau hir
addysgu hir
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Dwi'n dysgu Cymraeg
Un ysgytlaeth sbigoglys!
Un, dau, tri, pedwar
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Great place for studies
Big source of information
Access to the computers
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Books are so readable
Books are so bloody awesome
I really love books!
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This is a haicw
Haicw haicw haicw bam
Haicw is life YO
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There is a mountain
I sit below, lamenting
I am lost in life
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World book night or day
Take a book along the way
Let it stay in you
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Never turn down help
Or free cake for that matter
Cheers, Thomas Parry!
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Quiet place to think
And freely develop thoughts
In concentration
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Enthusiastic
Conceptualisation
Creativity
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AU’s libraries
Special collections, Wifi
The past meets the present
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Celebrate Book Night
I too can do a haiku
And I want free cake
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Candle light reading a book
Book with Wales
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April snow on trees dances
Shy when peeps from nearby birch
While library students study
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The rare book
Our eyes roll over its hills
Leading to the past
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I want a free cake
Library library book
Give me free cake please
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Boldly shone thee sun
Bringing brilliance to bluebells
On the woodland floor
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Quiet place to work
Comfortable atmosphere
Availability of a range of books
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Loads of books
Nice atmosphere
Study with friends
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Haiku in Japan
Welsh Metrical tradition
Wow poems worldwide
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World book night was fun
Thank you for all your haikus
Winners announced soon
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What a wonderful
Thing it is Shakespeare’s birthday
Is World Book Night too
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The wind lead me there
Oh, that is the library
Let us start reading
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(lines on the Llyfr Du)
Shadows from old pages
Light cast on forgotten space
Ancient ghosts emerge
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World book day is great
I love reading all the time
I’m learning haiku
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I love libraries
Informative and quiet
My favourite place to be
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Primo is first rate
Books galore who needs anymore
Reading is for champs!
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Concise and structured
Is “Programming in Haskell”,
By Graham Hutton
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AU Libraries
Study space and lots of books
Come and take a look
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Essays in Comp Sci,
A ramble through history
Authors Hoare and Jones
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One last stolen glance
Last words whispered in the stacks
Then I close the book
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Spring deadlines attacked
My fortress is Level F
With walls made of tomes
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The book world has changed
Paper and ink has vanished
Just words on a screen
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Stiff leaves in a book
Out there trees are feathering
That’s the wonder still
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In the library
Late at night with the ghosts of old
Books gave me a fright!
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Sit down and enjoy
A book read by the window
The view from HO
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A ray of starlight
soundless steps wander into
The unlocked dreamland
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Books are full of words
Day is so warm outside then
I want to keep on reading
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Pontificating
so averagely
out of boredom
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Please don’t make me write
Just give me cake quick quick now!
Oh no now I’m fat
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What’s a library?
Peace, quiet, contemplation
Balm for the vexed soul
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Aber is a sunny place
Stuffing chocolate cake in my face
My poem skills are ace
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Aber is ABBA
Musical, Fun and Sunny
But in winter sucks
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Being a law student
Sleep deprivation and late nights
Should have done Spanish
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My computer crashed
Guess I’m here for longer than
Anticipated
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Shrek likes onion juice
Aberystwyth likes onions
Aberystwyth love
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Are there two or three
Syllables in li-bra-ry?
Can’t haiku ‘til known
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Assuming it’s three
If you pronounce correctly
Haikus shall now flow
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Tears start to rain
When dry dust reaches the eye
Dust dried from love’s death
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Trees live two lives
As trees and corpses in balm
Paper, on which we scribe most calm
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I love libraries
Because they help me study
And such help I need
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Book on time
Book be fine
Words shall rule thee
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Once hushed respect, books.
Now wisdom knowledge on line,
Type scan chat eat drink
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The worst place to be.
No fun and no games, just books.
Dissertation sucks!
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Books are amazing woop
Learning poetry today
Finished seminars
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On study diets
Ice cream is all we think of –
We’re freezing inside
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Step through the portal
A room of books, of magic
A different world
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I heard there was cake
As such, here I am, for now
Counting syllables
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Sitting here alone
Constantly being passed by
Wondering, just why?
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Wide streams of pages
Delightedly draw my soul
In the letters sea
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A hoard of new thoughts,
“Intro to Algorithms”,
Cormen and others
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Dissertation
Awful dissertation
Books are my saviour
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Scale, fore, wing and claw
See he stands tall, proud and strong
Hear his trembling roar
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I don’t want this cake
I just want to be famous
This is my only chance!
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What a joy to see
The sun gleaming in the sea
A great day t’will be
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Storing our knowledge
For a future no one knows
Winter is coming
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Do you want to learn?
Or go on an adventure?
To the library!
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Sunshine in our life
Makes happy librarians
And long may it last
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All creation calls
But library inspired…
Cake rises, then falls
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Library, the home
Where I travel to and from
Thoughts, stories and fun.
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