![]() Stephen BaileyBorn: September 17 1949 in Paparoa, Northland, Aotearoa/New Zealand Resides: Ōtaki, Aotearoa/New Zealand E-mail: hanshateki (at) gmail (dot) com Website: https://parallelpoems.com Stephen Bailey is a geographical, societal, and poetic fringe dweller. He resumed writing poems towards publication in 2011 after a voluntary abstention from poem-writing since 1974 following the birth of his first-born daughter. He assumed the pen-name of Hansha Teki to mark this change of direction, but resumed his birth name at the beginning of 2023 to re-engage with his former path. Of his later parallel poems, poet and translator Eric Selland stated that "Possibly the most significant development in haiku-influenced poetry in our generation, these are both intensely personal and metaphysical poems – the very heart of becoming – in which the poem exceeds its own form, attaining something much larger" Awards and Other Honors: He is one of the poets featured in A New Resonance 11: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2019). Books Published: Triptych co-authored with Kala Ramesh and Don Baird (Red Moon Press, 2019); Memories of the Future co-authored with Clayton Beach (Heliosparrow Press, 2020); Bipedal Verses (Heliosparrow Press, 2020); For the Time Being (Ararua Books, 2023)-.
Credits: "river fog" – Frogpond vol. 35.3 Autumn 2012; "last rites"– The Heron's Nest vol. XIV No. 3 (September 2012); "morning prayer" – Multiverses 1:1 (October 9, 2013); "leaves" – Bones no. 11 (November 2016); "her ankles" – cattails (Editor's Choice, April 2017); "same old valley" – Bones no. 23 (April 2022). |