Poet Profile

Susan Constable

Susan began writing haiku in 2006 and has been published internationally. Besides haiku, she enjoys photo haiga, and dabbles in haibun and tanka.

Awards and Other Honors: Featured in A New Resonance 6: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2009); Second Place and Commended, White Lotus Contest (2009); Editor's Choice, White Lotus 9 (2009); Sakura Award, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Contest (2007 and 2009); Honorable Mention and Haiku of Merit, World Haiku Review 7:2 (2009); Readers' Choice, White Lotus 7 (2008); Honorable Mention, Betty Drevniok Award (2008); Shiki Kukai: First Place (November 2007), Second Place (July and September 2007; March 2008; December 2009), Third Place (December 2007; July 2009); Highly Commended, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Contest (2006), Second Place/Neo-Classical, World Haiku Review (2008); Editor's Choice, Cloudspeak 1 (2006).

no moon . . .
the sound of leaves
catching rain

amber light
the time it takes
a leaf to fall

planting the garden—
what to do with the rest
of my life

a length of rope
knotted with seaweed—
pull of the tide

dry river bed
a fawn licks the colour
from a rock

he photographs
what he can’t take home
sunlight on water

Credits: "no moon" - Commended, White Lotus Contest (2009), White Lotus 9 (2009); "planting the garden" - Simply Haiku 7:3 (2009); "dry river bed" - Shiki Kukai (September 2008); "amber light" - The Heron’s Nest X:1 (2008); "a length of rope" - The Heron’s Nest X:2 (2008); A New Resonance 6: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2009); "he photographs" – Editor's Choice, White Lotus 9 (2009).