In Gifu-butterfly, Ikuyo Yoshimura explores the meeting of Japanese and English haiku through seasonal observations, everyday encounters and memories of home. A richly contextualised bilingual collection accompanied by photographs and the poet’s reflections.
The newest Haiku Foundation interactive feature is haiku::photo, curated by internationally renowned photographer M.H. Rubin.
In the new green, GRIX moves between the natural world and the inner life, exploring identity, vulnerability and the possibility of becoming someone new. A collection that experiments with both language and the shape of the page.
After thirty years away, Kiyoshi Tokutomi returns to Japan. In Sixteen Autumn Haiku, autumn becomes a landscape of memory, homeland and the passage of time.
In Play Ball: Baseball Haiku, Cor van den Heuvel turns America’s beloved game into a collection of small observations where baseball meets weather, memory, childhood and the passing seasons.
The newest Haiku Foundation interactive feature is haiku::photo, curated by internationally renowned photographer M.H. Rubin.
Paul Chambers' The Dry Bones looks beneath familiar landscapes to find moments shaped by time, loss, memory and renewal. Its haiku move between moorland, rivers, animals, childhood and empty rooms, allowing ordinary images to acquire unexpected depth.
The newest Haiku Foundation interactive feature is haiku::photo, curated by internationally renowned photographer M.H. Rubin.
Cherie Hunter Day's A House Meant Only for Summer moves between memory, family, nature and loss, pairing expansive prose with haiku and tanka that open new spaces within each remembered moment.
What happens when philosophy becomes the raw material for haiku? Adam T. Bogar's The Vanishing Mediator discovers twenty monoku within Slavoj Žižek's philosophical writing, creating an intriguing meeting between found poetry, philosophy and Japanese short form.
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Tapan Mozumdar's at my doorstep transforms pandemic isolation into haibun filled with humour, vulnerability and sharp observations. Moving between family life, social anxieties and the natural world, the collection shows how a small moment can open into something much larger.
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Haiku Harvest 2000–2006 brings together seven years of international haiku writing, offering a fascinating glimpse into a tradition that embraces close observation, personal experience, humour, social realities and experimentation in English.
Ravi Kiran’s seasoned with salt brings together haiku shaped by rivers, footprints, flowers, birds and small creatures. The poems find unexpected connections between environmental change, human experience and the details of everyday life.
The newest Haiku Foundation interactive feature is haiku::photo, curated by internationally renowned photographer M.H. Rubin.
Written across continents, one-line twos brings together Kala Ramesh and Marlene Mountain in an inventive collaboration of alternating one-line haiku. The collection demonstrates how a single unbroken line can open multiple possibilities of rhythm, meaning, and shared poetic discovery.
In Fiddle in the Floorboards, Ben Moeller-Gaa brings music and haiku into quiet conversation. Drawing on jazz, blues, and folk traditions, the poems explore memory, improvisation, and the rhythms that continue to resonate long after the music has ended.
John Martone's dogwood & honeysuckle invites readers into a world where birds' nests, clay pots, woodland paths, and garden plants become occasions for careful observation. Blending haiku, prose, and visual experimentation, the collection rewards slow and attentive reading.