Poetry Pea - haiku and other English Language Japanese short forms

This week in our how to haibun episode to get you inspired to submit to Poetry Pea I have for you:

• a Patricia who is a tiny bit cross
• a romp through tradition of the Japanese prose poem
• Some advice on how you can write them

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Poetry Pea presents short form poetry about moths.

You can read them in the latest Poetry Pea Journal 1:25.

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This week, I’m going to be continuing with the theme of death poetry, taking a look at some interesting areas:

• Japanese prisoners of war, held in Japan and other countries, writing their jisei before their execution
• Poems written by those about to commit seppuku
• Poems from the ancient masters of our genre

Anyone who doesn’t want to listen to poems on these tough subjects, maybe come back next week.

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Today's podcast is about Death Poetry, more specifically

* Jisei,

* Zekku

* Death awareness poetry.

It will be the first of a two-part series of podcasts. I’ll share what I’ve learnt with you, read you some poetry and then give you a clue as to what I’ll be expecting next month in the death poem submission period. There will be rabbit holes…

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This week I want to return to thoughts of the Poetry Pea Anthology, Little Marvels for 2025, which if you’ve been listening to the podcasts this year you’ll know is on the theme of belonging and alienation.

Don’t worry, you have time to think about your submissions, your invitation will be arriving at some point later in the year… of course later could be next month or five months away. What you need to do if you would like to submit is make sure you are on the mailing list. You can sign up on the Poetry Pea website. Only poets on the mailing list will be invited to submit. I do check.

So anyway a few weeks ago, in episode 5 of this series I discussed the idea of belonging and the various ways we can interpret that in haiku and senryū. Today I’d like to focus on alienation.

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