The Swedish Haiku Society
Svenska Haiku Sällskapet
The Swedish Haiku Society, a non-profit association, was established on 7 October 1999 in Stockholm.
The object of the Swedish Haiku Society is
- to spread knowledge about haiku in Sweden
- to encourage writing of haiku poetry in the Swedish language
- to support interest in haiku in Swedish education
- to initiate and support lectures, conferences, seminaries
and workshops dedicated to haiku
- to contribute to and support translation of haiku to and
from Swedish
- to publish a regular review of haiku in Sweden.
- to contribute to and support haiku anthologies
- to establish a reference library of Swedish and foreign
haiku literature
- to include, in connection with the above-mentioned activities, metrical forms close to haiku, such as senryu, haibun, renga
and tanka, when the situation so requires
- to maintain contacts with Japanese as well as with other
Haiku societies in the world
