Book of the Week – A Year in Haiku: A Few Highlights from 2024
As we reach the end of 2024, I want to express my gratitude for engaging with the Book of the Week throughout 2024. It’s been an absolute joy sharing haiku treasures with all of you. While I cannot list all my favorites, here are a few haiku from this year that truly resonated with me. If you would like to review the books, please click on the book titles to be redirected:
all those haiku
about the moon in the trees,
the moon in the trees
John Stevenson, Some of the Silence
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music box somewhere inside yesterday
Gregory Longenecker, somewhere inside yesterday
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she rests a while
on a fallen tree
fingering the moss
Janice Bostok, Amongst the Graffiti
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Wading through,
And wading through,
Yet green mountains still.
Taneda Santoka, Fire on the Mountain
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zen garden
the furrows disappear
from her brow
Scott Mason, The Wonder Code
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Barefoot
across the tatami floor
across the wooden floor
Masaya Saito, Snow Bones
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This will be my final post of 2024 and also my last as the Digital Librarian. Thank you for your support, insights, and shared love for haiku. I hope our paths cross again in the future, and until then, may your journeys be filled with presence and poetry.
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Please share your favorite poem from the book with us.
Do you have a full or chapbook length book published in 2019 or earlier that you would like featured as a Book of the Week? Contact us for details. Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by the THF Digital Librarian Kenneth Pearson and are used with permission.
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Thank you Kenneth, you introduced me to many poets that were new to me.
This is such a valuable service. I greatly appreciate the range of different works offered over the year, many of which I wouldn’t have found by myself in the THF Library. Well done, and thank you Kenneth, and Dan before. All the best for 2025.
PS I have long had the verse by John Stevenson among my personal favourites too.
Thank you for these wonderful selections and for all of the time and care you have put into the role of Digital Librarian, Kenneth. This is one of my favorite parts of The Haiku Foundation. I am so grateful to have digital access to so many wonderful books.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Dear Dan,
Very much appreciated too!
Have a great twixmas and intriguing 2025! :-)
warm regards,
Alan