‘Nordhavn offings’: Writing with/in (three) languages [haibun]

Navigating between terse prose passages and the intense poetic images of haibun, I use this hybrid form, which itself transcends cultural generic boundaries, to reflect on my creative practice as an academic author, literary translator, research-based poet writing tutor. Translanguaging, transreading transwriting are akin feeling at sea not because proverbial loss direction, but visible a distance offers safety from inshore dangers. Such offings become translocal waters playful experiments may assist public private cartographies