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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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In this second part of a conversation with the preeminent poet George Swede about his book "The Way A Poem Emerges, A Haiku Trinity and Beyond, Patricia and George strive to get to grips with the differences between haiku / senryu and short form poetry, amongst other things. We'd love your response, do get in touch.

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A Haiku Trinity.

poetrypea.com has a visit from the eminent poet George Swede. He reads to us from his book, "The way a poem emerges, a haiku trinity" and we discuss the haiku form and the benefits to your health of writing haiku. It's fun, it's thoughtful and a great way to start the year of short form poetry that Poetry Pea has in store for you.

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poetrypea.com presents a podcast of poetry written especially for Poetry Pea. Some you are hearing them for the first time, some you will have read them in our poetry Journal. All of the poets are superb. Find out which poems Poetry Pea nominated for the Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards. Check out the submission diary on the website... perhaps you will have your work nominated next year.

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poetrypea.com presents a podcast of poetry following the creative, Zoka. Patricia is joined by poets from India and the USA to discuss the haiku & senryu and to award this month's Judges' choice. If you had your submission chosen, well done, if you were unsuccessful, there will be a next time. Check out all the submission possibilities on the webs site.

poetrypea.com presents the final part of a three part series on allusive variation in poetry. This time Honzetsu, in which a piece of prose writing is the foundation piece. Lots of contemporary poetic examples and some long form poetry in this edition too. Themes of sadness, death, decay, age and bravado, as well as the wistfulness of children's stories.

poetrypea.com presents a workshop about honkadori, which is allusive variation in poetry. This is part 2 of three podcasts. If you've not listened to part 1, it's the previous episode, do go and have a listen. How can you as poets use allusion to create, fresh, unique poems? Well hopefully this will answer that question and inspire you to write.