Poetry Pea - haiku and other English Language Japanese short forms

The poetry podcast, poetrypea.com is happy to bring you original poetry from around the globe. This time our poets have been focusing on using the cut in their haiku. Our community judges are from India, the UK, and France by way of the US. Will you agree with their choices? Do email me and let me know.

poetrypea.com was so honoured to launch Sean O'Connor's book, The God of Bones. A truly remarkable work of haibun. Something that will ignite the minds of writers of prose and poetry in the English speaking word and inspire them to write in new directions. As you will hear, the global audience found the reading very moving. I hope you enjoy and learn from the questions and answers from a very honest author and next time we do one of these live events I hope you'll join us. But you need to sign up for our mailings to find out about them. Enjoy

poetrypea.com is celebrating 7 years of poetry podcasts with some poetry from Maine in the US and some prose. The prose is a reading from Douglas J Lanzo's award winning book, The Year of the Bear. Douglas is regularly featured as a poet on Poetry Pea and when he told us about his first novel being such a success how could we not invite him along to read to us and tell us a bit about how he got it published.

poetrypea.com presents the second part of a presentation by Janice Doppler on Zoka. She gives all writers a tool they can use not just for poetry but for prose writing too. Be like the snail that pokes his antennae up to look around the world, record the transformations that you see in your world. Submit your haiku to Poetry Pea.

poetrypea.com presents US poet Janice Doppler helping us to understand the idea of Zoka and reading some examples of poetry illustrating Zoka. Zoka is something all writers can use in their work. I think Janice will leave you wanting more, but that's ok as she's back next week, with more super poems for you and tips on how to get started, if you haven't already written something.

poetrypea.com presents a short podcast of original poetry, specifically haiku and monoku this time. You'll hear more poetry to inspire you to write for our submissions and the results of the YouTube video prompt for August 2023. If you enjoy hearing poetry then you've come to the right place. Hope you enjoy it. Let me know and of course, join in with our submissions.

poetrypea.com presents a poetry reading with poet Alvin B Cruz all the way from the Philippines. He is reading from his book "Paper Cranes". We don't just discuss poetry, particularly haiku, senryu and tanka, we do culture too. Did you know how popular karaoke is in the Philippines? I didn't. Don't worry neither of us sing. Hope you enjoy this chat as much as we did. Do let me know. I can't make better podcasts without your feedback.

poetrypea.com were truly honoured to be chosen to launch the wonderful book of haibun written by Irish author Sean 0'Connor. As you will hear I believe this to be a ground breaking book. It pushes the boundaries of haibun writing in a powerful way. Strong writing from Sean. Whether you write prose or poetry there is something in this book to move you. Many of the audience reported being moved to tears. Hope you enjoy this reading... do email me and let me know. Don't forget to check out the show notes on the website.

poetrypea.com presents a podcast packed with poetry, specifically haiku using the Japanese aesthetic of Toriawase. Patricia is joined today by Jerome Berglund, editor of Heterodox Journal, Srinivasa Rao Sambangi, Brian LeBansky and Keith Evetts. Keith of course gave us an insight into Toriawase in S6E13. This is a podcast great for all levels of poets and writers too. We can all learn from it and as a bonus enjoy the haiku too.

poetrypea.com presents haiku and senryu written by poets from all around the globe. Partly to the July video prompt on the Poetry Pea YouTube channel (a new prompt on there every month), hence the tango theme, and partly in response to a spontaneous call out for haiku. Only poets on the Poetry Pea mailing list get the invite, so it's quite, quite special. Sign up for the mailing if you want to be invited to our next "flashku", it's an extra chance to write poetry and be featured on the podcast and in the next Poetry Pea Journal.