Poetry Pea - haiku and other English Language Japanese short forms

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 really accomplished, so thank you to Joshua for supplementing our knowledge and to all you poets who sent us poems as a result of his prompts. Today, I’m going to read a selection of them to you…

Don't forget there will be more in the Poetry Pea Journal 2:24. Make sure you are signed up for our newsletter to find out when it's published. You don't want to miss it.

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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 one every month except December and the submission period is open all month.

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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.

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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 Kolodji
• Edward Cody Huddleston

Their bio's are in the show notes, their unpublished haiku will be in the next Poetry Pea Journal.

If you know them, do let them know how brilliantly they did.

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, isn't it?

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

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You can submit haiku & senryū for this topic to Poetry Pea May 1-15 2024.

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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.

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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.

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