Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Haiku

"Poetry is one of the oldest, most widespread and yet most secret means of renewal known to human culture. It is the most essential way of prizing single words and the immemorial heritage that is language. With poetry, science and magic are mixed; we put runes under a microscope. A poem is a fish that has swallowed a ring of many meanings, leaping from the belly of a lake to flash for an instant in the sun.

"In recent years, I have found myself drawn to the Japanese tanka form, and have developed my own version of it, in English, through practice rather than theory. I say 'my own...

This is the second in the series of poetry collections that began with -September. Once again, adapting the Japanese tanka form, Quentin S. Crisp presents a poetic and aphoristic journal of season, mood, observation and introspection. Both a scrapbook of a writer's working process and a marshalling of new combinations of subject matter through an update of old forms, October is a further attempt by the author to close the gap between the time-taking, record-keeping distance of the written word and the immediacy of the living moment.

The Den of Lost Hours is written by Aaron Brindle.

The English haiku, senryū and free verse poetry of a young writer, collected together over a decade from the original time of writing.

How to Write a Haiku provides a concise introduction to the art of the haiku and takes the beginner through the process of capturing the fleeting moment or a high point of experience. This practical guide gives examples of haiku newly translated from the Japanese, as well as original haiku in English, and illustrates how the raw material of experience and recollection can be shaped into both formal and informal versions of the traditional haiku.

In this first of three volumes, Yendor D. Wolf introduces the world as seen by a martial artist living in the City for the first time. Each haiku zooms in on delightfully, and easily missed, details in the vast metropolis. Wolf provides the reader with a puzzle piece, a fragment of beauty that possesses meaning.

Throughout, Wolf sheds light on his hopes, fears, and thoughts as he answers the age old question: "Was this a good idea?"

Such light that breaks through

These streets, roads, and avenues

Let it shine on me

In this collection of 30 haiku, Debbie Strange reflects on the change of seasons in Canada. Her delicate haiku are presented in calligraphy by JS Graustein, with each poem written in Carolingian hand before digitizing.

an'ya, Principal Editor of cattails, says: ..".Debbie's work reflects her natural personality and exuberance for nature. A Year Unfolding is a fine collection..." Mike Rehling, past officer of the United Haiku and Tanka Society, says: ..".Her delicate insights into every facet of life are wonderful examples of the form..."

In Owen Bullock’s second haiku sequence with Recent Work Press, he explores the wisdom garnered from his period as a care worker for the elderly in New Zealand. These haiku display the riches of Bullock’s keen sense of observation married with his ability to get to the essence of any subject with his deft use of this most precise of Japanese forms.