Four Season Farm

Jeremy Haworth is an Irish poet and writer. In 2019, he started Charis Garden, renovating a tumbledown farmstead and walled garden into an organic market garden that now serves local people with a weekly share of fresh, seasonal produce. In conjunction with Social Farming Ireland, the garden also serves as a space of welcome and support for those living with poor mental health or disability. The garden is based near the Laois/Kildare border, in rural Ireland.

Last year, Jeremy published his first collection, a book of haibun entitled Four Season Farm. Haibun is a Japanese-related form, inspired by the writings of Matsuo Bashō and his landmark seventeenth century work, The Narrow Road To The Deep North. Haibun combines terse prose pieces with haiku. Unique to Japan but practised worldwide, haiku is a verse-form that records a single, glowing moment. It is unrhymed one-breath poetry. The interplay between the rhythm of prose and the meditative flash of haiku creates the unique dynamic of haibun.