topical haiku for prizes

Guardian Unlimited Books | Games | Books games haiku

haiku mastery
could be the key to winning
some Penguin Classics

want to win a prize?
encapsulate news events
in three simple lines

paint a word picture
in seventeen syllables
five-seven-five form

a haiku headline
snapshot of the world today
elucidation

The best topical haiku received will be posted on the site and included in Guardian Unlimited’s ‘Informer’ email, and each week the overall winner will net its author £20 worth of Penguin Classics