Book of the Week: walking into the sun
Jan Bostok’s haiku before she became the godmother of Australian haiku.
Book of the Week: Emblems of Arachne
Charles Henri Ford’s is one of the most enigmatic voices in English-language haiku.
Book of the Week: endgrain
Dee Evetts became recognized as a major haiku voice with the publication of this classic volume.
Book of the Week: The Full Canoe
Rosa Clement’s haiku have been appreciated in her native Brazil and around the world.
Book of the Week: Empty Account
Ralf Bröker’s personal journey to and back from burnout speaks to all of us.
Book of the Week: The Haijin’s Tweed Coat
See how many titles you recognize in Michael Dylan Welch‘s homage to haiku journals.
Book of the Week: Butterfly Breezes
This unusual work is “a one-time anthology,” a collection of butterfly poems from nearly all the top haiku poets of its day, the early 1980s . . .
Book of the Week: Sailing Bones
Raymond Roseliep’s was an early, poetic voice that helped stretch the boundaries to allow our non-Japanese ethos to enter the form . . .
Book of the Week: Haiku
Rod Willmot’s hand-lettered early poems have stood the test of time, and you’ll find some of his best-known poems here . . .
Book of the Week: Jazztronaut
Geert Verbeke has plied his idiosyncratic notions of haiku and tanka in dozens of books, but nowhere better than when he takes on the theme of music, as here . . .
Book of the Week: small town
The trope of life in a small town as a subject for haiku dates to feudal Japan, and includes Hoyt, Spiess and now tripi among its adopters . . .
Book of the Week: whistling
Season is the author of several attractive chapbooks of haiku, this one being exemplary . . .
Book of the Week: Bells Are Calling
Jack de Vidas’s sole collection makes the argument on both sides of the globalization issue . . .
Book of the Week: The Cottage of Wild Plum
These idiosyncratic layouts belie a staunch traditionalist sensibility that might be found in all of Spiess’s work . . .
Book of the Week: Cricket in the House
And then there’s the Western (United States, that is) sensibility in haiku, intriguingly captured in the sole book by this author . . .
Book of the Week: Shadows in the Empty Road
Lewis Sanders was one of the mainstays of haiku publishing in the 1980s, bringing an Eastern sensibility to his Western life . . .
Book of the Week: Gaza
One of a very few books of haiku that are expressly political in expression, this interesting work doesn’t take sides . . .
Book of the Week: The Elements
One of the Radish series of miniatures published by Wim Lovfers, Hans Reddingius’s work seems perfectly at home in such a setting . . .
Book of the Week: 21 Erotic Haiku for Samantha
This is one of the most unusual books of haiku you will ever read . . .