Poetry by form: Haiku Books

Scifaikuest is a quarterly digest of minimalist poetry such as haiku, scifaiku, senryu, haibun, empat perkataan, fibonacci, tanka, sonomka, gogyohka, cinquain, and others. Each issue includes poetry, an essay about a poetic form, a featured poet, and an...

A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.

'I grew up in a small village in southern Greece. We had no toilet, no TV, and often no water or electricity. We were so isolated that we learnt about John Lennon's death in 1984 - four years after the incident. There were also very few people around to...

Within the pages of P.J. Reed's gorgeous collection, Haiku Gold, you will find haiku that will transport you to the vibrant Devon countryside in Autumn, from invigorating storms and bonfires to the gentle fall of golden leaves. Above all, Haiku Gold is a...

This unique collection of ocean photography and haiku poetrycelebrates the sea.Like a photograph, a haiku poem seeks to capture a singlemoment in time.In this beautifully produced book, 17 striking ocean photographs by multi-award-winning Australian...

Emotions in Evolution is an emotional appreciation of our world through the exploration of nature. Colours, their meaning and the pleasure they bring us, are brought to life through words. Language explodes into a description of common and unusual plant...

An ant to the starsor stars to the ant--which ismore irrelevant?Weekend Jet Skiers--rude to call them idiots, yes, but facts are facts.Clamor of seabirdsas the sun falls--I look upand ten years have passed."--from "Dawn Notebook"Such is the expansive...

Scifaikuest is a quarterly digest of minimalist poetry forms, including scifaiku, haiku, tanka, haibun, senryu, fibonacci, empat perkataan, diminudo, cinquain, and several others. It is published in February, May, August, and November. This is its 21st...

Six Haiku poets from different parts ofthe globe coming together through their words. Collaborating to fill the blank canvas with their minds and hearts. Rising to become one literary adventure.

In a world of Black and White" where darkness covers the canvas everywhere I look.A dream a child wants instead of a land of hurt. If God created us equally, why do others smile when I frown?Why do I lack the energy to get out of bed? When will these...

An imaginary land of nature-themed creations are introduced playfully to the reader with haiku poetry.  Creatures made of bark, plants, seeds, shells and other sea life are presented as the unique residents of Scanland.

On a colder day The wet-window face is mine Too new to be seen  And this woman scared Looked to steel for cold comfort Drew a spiders line  On her ancient heart Saw no sun in the flowers Where she once...

Who would ever think of creating Christian haiku? John MarkPeterson did, and he has done the Christian faith a favor. Forthe entire Liturgical Year, Mark has authored haiku that arebeautifully composed, biblically grounded, and spirituallyenriching. They...

The Way of Haiku is a guide for learning to write the most popular form of Japanese poetry: haiku. But true to the inviting and personal style of its author, Naomi Beth Wakan, it is also an eye-opening view into the way that reading and writing haiku can...

Winter is a season of frozen beauty and the slowing of time, as a white breath falls against the browning leaves and winter tightens her grip over the sleeping landscape. It is a time of solitude and reflection as people and animals shelter from the cold...

'For lovers of springtime...'Within the pages of P.J. Reed's gorgeous collection, Haiku Yellow, you will find haiku that will transport you to the unspoilt Devon countryside in Spring. This collection bursts with excitement and drama, as the...

‘True to the grandmasters of times now past (like Issa), rather than projecting herself onto her subjects, Judith E.P. Johnson allows her subjects to breathe new life through her haiku and senryu. Precious cowrie shells culled from sparse windswept...

Born in Iowa along the Mississippi River, Lawrence Eyre holds a B.A. from Yale in American Studies. He has taught history and coached tennis for thirty years at Maharishi School in Fairfield, Iowa. The United States Professional Tennis Association named...

Experience the beauty and wonder of the changing seasons through the eyes of a virgining poet. From the crisp, cool air of autumn to the warmth and vitality of spring, this collection of poems captures the essence of each season and brings it vividly to...

Voices of Our Children is a compilation of poetry written by students attending Bridgeport, Norwalk, Westport, and Wilton schools. Writing poems in a series of sessions led by Poetry Workshop Creator Sylvie Middleton and organized by jennifer lyn...

More Rhymes For Our Times continues on an uplifting voyage, mixing quirky insights into the human condition with thoughtful consideration of topics including family, faith and life itself. Humour & human interest abound in a collection of highly...

Quaran Team is an artful exploration of the Covid- 19 experience through watercolor visuals and Haiku poems. The book is a delight for all ages and delightfully presents some of our shared experiences over the past few years. It offers a good humored,...

A Year of the Haiku features 365 new haiku poems by James Maxfield written as a year-long experiment of composing one haiku poem each day during the year 2013 using only the words provided by Haikubes-a set of sixty-three die pieces with five words on...

The haiku poems of this book tell the narrative of the Last Supper, passion, death, resurrection, ascension, and Great Commission of the Gospels, evoking the essence of these momentous events. The distilled style of emotions embedded in the poems may...

This book of 156 haiku is not one of those books, not verbal snapshots of Japanese seasons and Mt. Fuji, nor of daffodils, butterflies, maple leaves, or snowflakes. The 156 haiku in this book are extruded from personal experiences, encounters with...

In 2020, as the isolation of the worldwide pandemic spread, I explored ways to fill the empty space in my life by creating something positive that might also enrich the lives of others. Over the years, I've enjoyed sharing my photographs from all seven...

About the Author :'Parag ' an Electronics Engineer by qualification grew taller with his height of achievements in Industrial world with years of experience at helm of affairs for various companies. He then  marched his journey further as Turnaround...

At the heart of nature haiku is a deep feeling of beauty. The wish to live and experience this beauty and wonder is visible in all living entities. In sharing this beauty, we experience enlivenment-The deep meaning of life.Nature throbs...

'This is a very good book about the pandemic. Everything written is so true and it's kinda sad. COVID did take away our lives as we saw it. Everyone knows that hi!and adapt o things pretty easy. We had to change our lives because of this stupid virus...

In nature, it is common knowledge that, like the diamond, gold is eternal. Nearing the age of seventy-five, David Rosen, though dealing with aging, chronic illness, and other end-of-life issues, recognizes also in this time that his creative ability is...

Six years in six months, or six months in six years-Autumn and Spring Annals is a diary in verse, each day crystalized-in beauty, worry, dread and profundity. Quentin S. Crisp, a writer of timeless stature, lays his heart bare in a book that is at once...

This publication is my first, and it is inspired by my greatest female friend. Im very pleased you are taking your time to read my work, and Im looking forward to publish more in the future for your pleasure.Thank you,M. A. Seskis

The verses of Maya Mitra Das plumb the alchemy of primeval moons and mist-wrapped mountains; delving deep into the realm of personal myth. Spanning the arc of ecstasy and despair, her poems explore the boundaries of human loneliness as well as the...

This is my third book of poetry written in quarantine. This time I decided to stick with one format - Haiku. Although the poems are significantly shorter, I do hope that the emotions and intention of the poems have equal weight and meaning to the reader...

COVID prepquickly assembledtoilet paper soars sky-highunknown seas aheadLiving during a pandemic has provided us with new ways of looking at our challenges and all the emotions that accompany them.In a collection of haikus and haiku-like poems, Sheri...

Ancient Ashkelon was first inhabited in the Neolithic Age. This seaport has been subject to conquest and rule by many peoples through the millennia. Conquerors have included the Canaanites, Philistines, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Crusaders and Ottomans...

These fierce poems bleed love and loss, knotted with a personal reckoning of a "Vietnam of the soul" shared with a vanished husband whom neither divorce nor death can finally erase. Pris Campbell cuts herself to the quick and keeps going. Her wounds...

Featuring an eclectic and inspired range of vignettes, Sirens and Rain celebrates Philadelphia with poetic dexterity and brilliance. Poem after poem brings out the essence of how human activities blend seamlessly with nature. This is clearly the work of...

Originally published in 2017, Drinking Poetry is Chloe Gilholy's first published book. Drinking Poetry celebrates the diversity of beverages in poetic forms. Also includes the short story, A Kink of Tea.

Neil Kennedy's new book, A Jigsaw Puzzle is like no other book of poetry I have ever read. From the very beginning-Flower on the floor./Somebody has lost their bloom./I am very careful.-Kennedy pulls you in, though really, as with any jigsaw puzzle, you...

"These inappropriately pleasant poems about TikTok, necromantic sex and the pseudo-Platonic theurgy of Iamblichus are written with great insincerity. Nothing meaningful or emotional is confessed and there is no relatable trauma. The language is grotesque...

David Elliott's third book of poetry, Through the Silence, gives the reader a meditative, tranquil experience rarely seen in poetry today. Rising through traditional haiku, non-traditional haiku, haiku-esque longer forms, and lyrical poems,...

Elyjziah C. Coonrod is the author and poet behind Passages of Life. Born in Jacksonville, Illinois, raised in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and currently, an undergraduate at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, Elyjziah has drawn inspiration...

Of all forms of poetry and literature, haiku is likely the least amenable to chronological treatment. Haiku comprises moments of vision, and a "history of moments" is hardly achievable. If we were to choose one for such a task, however, a strong case...