Book of the Week: soap bubbles
These seemingly simple poems by K. Ramesh are as evanescent and tricky as the volume's title suggests.
Book of the Week: together still
Philip Rowland’s long practice in short form poetry is brought to bear in this, his first full-length collection.
Book of the Week: Ash
This volume by Masaya Saito gave English-language haiku readers a first glimpse at what came to be called gendai.
Book of the Week: tenement landscapes
Paul David Mena’s haiku have a sunny surface and a dark underside, as this gritty first collection attests.
Book of the Week: Sketches from the San Joaquin
Michael McClintock is one of the longest serving haiku poets, and one of the best, as this recent collection attests.
Book of the Week: Shifting With My Sandwich Hand
Humor leavens these pointed observations of the universe, and the people in it, in David Oates’s first collection.
Book of the Week: How Fast the Ground Moves
Claire Gallagher’s powerful natural images have resonated from her earliest work, as here.
Book of the Week: Ten Years’ Collected Haiku
William J. Higginson’s inestimable contributions to haiku include his own strong poems.
Book of the Week: an apocalypse of haiku
Judy Kamilhor’s prior experience in long poetry is evident in this, her first haiku collection.
Book of the Week: Tadpoles
This charming collection of haiku by young people is one of the best things the British Haiku Society has ever produced.
Book of the Week: the kissing bridge
This debut volume by Stephen Toft remains, sadly, his only full-length collection.
Book of the Week: Noticing the View
This strong, early collection by Katherine Samuelowicz marked her entrance onto the haiku stage.
Book of the Week: Where Light Begins
Gabriel Rosenstock offers another of his beautiful and sensuous collections.
Book of the Week: Weathergrams
Lloyd Reynolds was the first and most beautiful practitioner of this ancient Japanese ritual in the United States.
Book of the Week: Words on the Wind
Jim Norton’s work contains a minimalist beauty, neatly matched in this volume hand-bound by George Marsh.
Book of the Week: so many people go hungry
Mankh is a poet with a moral compass, as evidenced in this recent collection.
Book of the Week: earthjazz
The title suggests two of Martin Lucas’s sources of inspiration, on view in this strong collection.
Book of the Week: late geese up a dry fork
Burnell Lippy’s dry, acerbic voice is unique in haiku, and instantly recognizable.
Book of the Week: alone tonight
Larry Kimmel has been writing lyrical, moving haiku for more than four decades.
Book of the Week: Tanka and Haikai: Japanese Rhythms
Sadakichi Hartmann may have been the one who codified haiku into three lines.