A new online magazine with 100 haiku
For all you haiku fans, here’s a link to a new online magazine Kigo: Seasonal Words – available to download free.
It contains four of my haiku, which, of course, makes me really happy, but that’s not why I recommend it. It has 96 other haiku and they are a wonderful collection.
This first issue is a Winter/Spring one, but having a restricted subject matter has not restricted the poets. There are so many ways of looking at a season; many of them I wouldn’t have been able to think of ever. A formal poetry style, a restricted subject, but so much variety.
The human brain has so many manifestations – if all the 8 billion people in the world sat down and wrote a haiku about winter no two of them would be the same. And yet in all that difference almost all those 8 billion people respond to poetry. Behind the diversity is an underlying sharing.
Those who write haiku, tanka or haiga may be interested to know that the publishers, Chuffed Buff Books, are now taking submissions for the summer issue.
e a m harris 
yours are great! another poet I know, Carol Duprez, told me about this publication, and when I went to read hers I thought: hey, I know that E.A.M. Harris from the wordpress world. How cool! Happy haiku-ing 🙂
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Thank you for your comment – a real ‘small world’ story. And thank you for liking my haiku. I reread Carol Durpez’s and they are lovely. I particularly liked the icicles.
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How wonderful – going to download it now and blog about it later. I’ve read your haikus before so I know the standard is high…
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Thank you for your comment and lovely compliment. I hope you’ve been enjoying the haiku. I reread some of them this morning and found things in them I hadn’t seen before.
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