2020 has been a year like no other in living memory. The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world, causing disease and social distress across the globe. Amid the turmoil, Scott Mason has compiled a collection of haiku and related poetry titled: Gratitude in the Time of COVID-19: The Haiku Hecameron. The collection seeks to acknowledge… Read More Gratitude in the Time of COVID-19
Robert Epstein’s collection, The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology, was published earlier in 2020 by Middle Island Press. Robert has brought together an extensive collection of haiku, senryu, tanka and haiga on the theme of care, kindness and helping others. As with most of Robert’s collections, the book commences with a thoughtful Preface. In this case,… Read More Helping Hand Haiku Anthology
The Signature Haiku Anthology: Including Senryu and Tanka was published earlier this year by Middle Island Press. Editor, Robert Epstein, describes a signature poem as ‘a unique and authentic expression of one’s haiku spirit or sensibility’. Acknowledging that many of a writer’s poems reflect their poetic spirit, he argues a poet will often have one… Read More The Signature Haiku Anthology
There is a brand new haiku journal on the scene. Issue #1 of Kingfisher was released in July 2020. Kingfisher will be produced twice yearly by Tanya McDonald from Washington State in the USA. Tanya describes Kingfisher as ‘a print journal of traditional and experimental haiku and senryu’. Kingfisher is beautifully produced in landscape format… Read More Kingfisher Journal
field of stars (Walleah Press, 2019) is the latest collection by Tasmanian poet, Lyn Reeves. Lyn is currently Vice-President of the Australian Haiku Society, co-editor of Echidna Tracks: Australian Haiku and founder and convener of the Watersmeet haiku group. It is often said about poetry in general,… Read More Lyn Reeves: field of stars
Robert Epstein is a poet and psychotherapist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has produced a series of poetry anthologies on topics such as grief, renewal and the afterlife. His anthology, All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku, was published by Middle Island Press in late 2019. The anthology contains a mix of… Read More All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku
Brooks Books in the USA has released Another Trip Around the Sun: 365 Days of Haiku for Children Young and Old, edited by Jessica Malone Latham. And this book delivers exactly what it says – one haiku for each day of the year, with each poem capturing the spirit of discovery, the magic of a… Read More Another Trip Around the Sun
The new issue of Windfall is now available. Issue 8, published in early 2020, provides a wonderful selection of haiku relevant to the experience of urban and rural life in Australia. Edited by Beverley George, and published by Peter Macrow from Blue Giraffe Press, Windfall accepts submissions in July each year with the print publication… Read More Windfall: Issue 8
Gregory Piko 