Tag: gendai?
-
Future Haiku Collection
I’m hoping to prepare another haiku collection for release toward the end of the year, I just have to submit it to my publisher and see what they think. So far, it’s shaping up well but I need to spend a fair bit more time on it as I’m trying to add a more…gendai like…
-
An Introduction to Haiku – Compositional Techniques 2
Sense Switching “Sense switching” is a great technique for surprising and delighting the reader. A haiku poet might use it to engage the reader by introducing something unexpected in the poem or to connect two seemingly unrelated events or images. You can do this through careful placement of information across the phrase and fragment. Here,…
-
An Introduction to Haiku – Compositional Techniques 1
Haiku can be tough to write, but they’re worth the challenge, and there are a few techniques that can help during composition. Juxtaposition The first technique you can take advantage of—and if you’ve read haiku you’ll have seen it often—is the use of juxtaposition. Jane Reichhold’s “phrase & fragment” theory is one of the most…
-
An Introduction to Haiku – Form & Structure: Related Forms
The Haiku’s Siblings Haiku can be defined by a few general rules if we wish. But if we leave out one of the rules, is what we’ve written still haiku? If not, what is it? One of haiku’s close relatives is the senryu, which in modern ELH (English Language Haiku) practice is actually often interchanged…
-
gendai haiku
On gendai haiku – from a master of research and a superb haiku poet in her own right, have a read of this from Melissa Allen. It’s a great overview of the gendai haiku movement, something which has been fascinating me for months and months now, and includes some startling haiku too gendai haiku at…
ashley capes 