Haiku Down Under 2022 is a three-day Zoom conference being organised to connect poets from Australia, New Zealand and beyond. The event will run from Friday 7 October to Sunday 9 October 2022. The Haiku Down Under website can be found here. The site provides details of the conference programme and background information about the… Read More Coming Soon: Haiku Down Under 2022
In 2017, Indian poet, musician and educator, Kala Ramesh, released a book of haiku and haibun titled beyond the horizon beyond. The book was published by Vishwakarma Publications and is available from Amazon and other online sellers. beyond the horizon beyond is a substantial collection comprising 125 pages of haiku followed by almost 50 pages… Read More Kala Ramesh: beyond the horizon beyond
The popularity of the short poetic form, haiku, has grown significantly in recent decades. Originating in Japan, haiku are now written in many languages around the world. As a result, haiku are available in a large number of print and online journals. Links to many of the English-language haiku journals are provided below. People are… Read More English-Language Haiku Journals
The respected Australian poet and artist, Ron C. Moss, has released a new collection titled Cloud Hands. The book features striking cover art by Ron that includes stencilled hands, reminiscent of Indigenous art, a conventional farmhouse under a starry sky and Ron’s Japanese hanko (or Artist Name Seal) in the top left corner. Cloud Hands… Read More Ron C. Moss: Cloud Hands
Adjei Agyei-Baah is a widely published poet from Ghana. He has written several books including Afriku (Red Moon Press, 2016) and is co-founder of the Africa Haiku Network and The Mamba (Africa’s premiere haiku journal). Adjei is currently pursuing his PhD studies in New Zealand. Earlier in 2022, Buttonhook Press released Adjei’s new haiku chapbook:… Read More Adjei Agyei-Baah: Scaring Crow
Canadian writer, Debbie Strange, weaves her love of poetry, music, art and photography into a range of creative pursuits. Debbie’s haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga have been widely published and received many awards. Haiga is the centuries-old Japanese art form that combines an illustration with a haiku. The emotional impact of such a piece is… Read More Debbie Strange: Fade to Black
Several poets from New Zealand and Australia are organising a virtual haiku conference to be called: Haiku Down Under. The conference will be held from 7-9 October 2022. Details for the event can be found here. After the poets met online at Haiku North America in 2021, they decided to organise a similar event for… Read More Haiku Down Under: 2022
In recent months, one of my haiku received an Honourable Mention in a Croatian haiku competition while another received an Honourable Mention in an Irish contest. With a number of countries now running competitions for haiku written in English, I thought it might be helpful to provide links to various of these competition websites. Please… Read More English-Language Haiku Competitions
Gregory Piko 