THE FOOTBALL HAIKU WORLD CUP TEAM

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THE FOOTBALL HAIKU WORLD CUP TEAM

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* Matthew Devereux, Woking, Surrey, England

* Alan Summers. Founder of With Words

* Tim Souster. A primary school teacher in London, England; reviewed for “The Times Literary Supplement” and “The Financial Times”.

* Timmy Killeen runs the English Football Post and is based in Galway, Ireland.

* Peter Ulrik Roeder is the author of “Game Over” and is based in Lyngby, Denmark.

* Adriana Piccardo, creator and administrator of a haiku group at Facebook and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

* Roxana Elena Roseti is an editor on the Romanian newspaper Jurnalul National

The basic idea is very simple.

Firstly, there will be an ongoing ebook of the haiku we receive that can be downloaded. People downloading that ebook can choose to pay any amount that they like, based on the same funding model as the seminal satta king Radiohead album “In Rainbows”. Once we have received a decent number of initial haiku, we can then offer the first version of the ebook for download. So please send your haiku to us as soon as possible.

After that, in the long-term, those haiku can be put together along with specially commissioned illustrations for a book that will be published and available in shops at a set price. We are interested to hear from artists and designers.

Of the initial money that is received from those donating for the downloadable ebook, 25% will go to the small team orchestrating and editing the ebook. 25% will be paid equally to contributors of haiku that are selected to be part of the project. 25% will be provided as special prizes to the writers of the three haiku that are voted as the best by readers of the ebook. The remaining 25% will be given to a football-related good cause voted on by contributors and readers of the ebook. So if you contribute a poem or download the ebook, please also send over the name of the football-related good cause you would like to see money donated to to iq.high2010@gmail.com.

If you are an individual or organisation that would like to become a partner or patron or supporter of the project, and would be able to contribute financially to it to help us make it happen (no matter how small a contribution), please also contact us immediately at iq.high2010@gmail.com. In exchange for your contribution we will provide you with a link in the ebook.