Poetry Pea - haiku and other English Language Japanese short forms

poetrypea.com presents the Irish writer Diarmuid Fitzgerald who reads to us from his books Thames Way and A Thousand Sparks, published by Alba publishing. I smiled for days when editing this. I hope you enjoy it too. Show notes here.

Come on a bike ride with me to the lake and back via the woods, river and farm and along the way we'll enjoy some haiku and senryū poetry written especially for the podcast and some senryū to inspire you to write. Check out the show notes here .

Today we have oodles of original poetry, haiku and senryū, written by you about one single object. Much like beauty, the object is often in the eye of the author and the reader and so some of you might disagree with some of our choices, which as you know I don’t have a problem with. if you do disagree, slip me an email and let me know why. We won’t fall out about it. I promised you a journal out a...

Next month, July 2024, we are writing senryū together. To inspire your creativity and to give you a background in the history of senryū I’m running a series of podcasts all about them. This is the second one, the first was episode 23 of this series, so it would make sense to go back and listen or watch that one before you crack on with this. Unfortunately while I was preparing for this series of p...

Today at poetrypea.com I’m inviting you to head off with me to my old summer stomping ground, the Irish countryside. For a reading of poetry, more particularly haibun. We’re going to meet the poet and farmer Jeremy Haworth and listen to the poems he wrote while he was learning his farming craft. “in Four Season farm, Jeremy Haworth’s writing is skilled, deliberate and accomplished. It is honest, h...

Over the next month or so I’ll be looking at senryū. At why senryū are often seen as a lesser form of poetry, at senryū in the pre modern era in Japan, ie. pre 1868 and how they developed from that point on both in the Japan and in the English speaking world. It has been a fascinating study from a poetry and an historical point of view. I’ve always thought that haiku can instruct us about life in...

This week poetrypea.com presents you with the haiku & senryu poems chosen by Linda to feature on the Podcast from the Poetry Pea YouTube prompt. There's one every month (except December). Issa and Buson members will get a copy of the poems featured today, but if you are not a member and you'd like to read them you can buy the next Poetry Pea journal, 3:24 out at the end of June. If you...

poetrypea.com presents a live reading of haiku & senryū poetry from the collection Off The Main Road. The poets and editors are joined by a global audience to celebrate the launch of this new collection of haiku & senryū. This collection is a book poetry from 6 poets who have not yet had their single collections published, but on the evidence of this reading... that day is not so far away....

Patricia from poetrypea.com records a little postcard for all poetry lovers. This week a reading from a haibun by Thomas Festa, a short form that combines poetry and prose. There's a call for haibun submissions this month. Don't miss it. Show notes here

While she takes a little RnR, Patricia has recorded a postcard for poetry lovers. A little bit about seasons in haiku and then a split sequence, the editor's choice from the recent Poetry Pea journal of split sequences, Split Peas. Show notes here

Joshua Gage, haiku guru, came along and gave Poetry Pea a masterclass in Toriawase and how to use it to write your haiku. In fact I think you could use it in any writing practice. We then asked you to write some haiku and senryu using the prompts he suggested in the workshop. I was chatting to some of the editing team a little while ago and they mentioned that the submissions for Toriawase were re...

Poetry Pea presents poems spoken out loud. In this episode the successful poems from the Poetry Pea Video Prompt. If you'd like to feature on the podcast and in the Poetry Pea bi-monthly journal, you can go to the Poetry Pea YouTube channel and leave your poem in the comments. You can submit as often as you'd like and Linda will read them and choose her favourites to feature. There's o...

Poetry Pea presents a live poetry reading, haiku and haibun from a group of North American poets, from, shall we say, a younger generation of poets. Read the show notes here. Thanks to Alex for hosting of this episode and to our lovely poets: Antoinette Cheung Nicky Gutierez Carly Siegel Thorp Ari Azimuth aka Brown Weasel Ryland Li Matt Snyder, one of Poetry Pea's Renga masters Yvette Nicole K...

A companion podcast to S7E14. This podcast by Poetry Pea offers: more examples of poems by the disciples of the master haiku poet Basho illustrations of the single object method of writing an answer to the the question: all hokku are single object poems, aren't they? You may not agree, in which case, let me know. Hope you enjoy the poetry, it's always lovely to hear poetry spoken aloud, is...

On this podcast from Poetry Pea you will learn: How to write single object haiku & senryu poetry and get your work published using a variety of techniques Reversing expectation Toriawase Using senses Sketch from life Looking beyond the boundary Yūgen Show notes here. You can submit haiku & senryū for this topic to Poetry Pea May 1-15 2024. Become a member

featuring the UK poet, Katherine E Winnick. Poetry Pea presents the Anthology To Live here, published by Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, proceeds of which go to charity. Show notes. Become a member

This week Poetry Pea features some original haiku from the February video prompt on The Poetry Pea YouTube channel. If you'd like to feature please add your poetry to the comments on the latest video prompt on YouTube. There's some exciting news for all you poets and writers out there. Become a member

Is this a tourism advert for Monhegan Island off the coast of America? No, it's a reading from one of Maine's premier short form poets. A master of haiku, Kristen Lindquist illustrates her prowess in the haibun form too in her reading from her latest book, Island. The book is inspired by Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. Show notes. Become a member

Poetrypea.com has a visit from Craig Kittner at Ghosts on Vacay. We discuss many, many writing topics, but why should you listen? We discuss: What’s your writing process? Do you sometimes have periods when your need to unlock your creativity? What his process and website can offer you in your journey to become a better writer Whether you write poetry or prose, there's something for you. Show n...

Poetry Spoken here: Today poetrypea.com presents a podcast of original haiku and senryu alluding to other pieces of literature for example: Harry Potter Little Red Riding Hood Winnie the Pooh An opportunity for poets to let their haiku imaginations run riot. Five judges join Patricia to choose their favourite of the original poems. Will you agree with them? Show notes Become a member

There are few things better in life than listening to poetry. This podcast from poetrypea.com brings you haiku and senryu written for the video prompt on the Poetry Pea YouTube channel (you submit by writing your poem in the comments... there's a prompt every month, except December) AND our latest successful flashku, more wonderful haiku and senryu from Poetry Pea's listeners and viewers....

What influences your writing? Culture Emigration Travel Interacting with other writers or other things. Meet Indian poet, living in the US, Sangita Kalarickal. Have a listen at poetrypea.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Then email me and let me know what influences you. Become a member show notes

poetrypea.com presents the American poet Joshua Gage, one of editing team at Cuttlefish books who tells us: What Toriawase is How we can use it to improve all our poetry Gives us a recipe for haiku punch, available on the website Join us for a poetry drinking game, you can drink tea, I will! Become a member Show notes

poetrypea.com presents a podcast looking at: What happened to German haiku poetry after the second world war? What is the inner emmigration movement in literature? Listen to haiku poetry in English and German. Be inspired to write some poems of your own. Become a member Show notes

poetrypea.com presents a workshop. When did haiku come to Europe What did it look like Would we recognise it as haiku today What book was published in 1939 that had an impact Become a member Show notes