Powered by RedCircle Today we are celebrating the humble tortoise here at Poetry Pea. If you are a regular you may well know that this little reptile is one of my favourites, actually I think it’s the only reptile I
S7E41 Contemporary Tanka Poetry
Powered by RedCircle Many, many thanks to Vandana Parashar for her help in putting this workshop together. Scroll to the bottom for the submission guidelines. Links: Still We Rise Wee Sparrow Press a raven believed it could fly through
S7E40 A Blast from the Past at Poetry Pea
Powered by RedCircle It’s our birthday. Can you believe that we are going into our 8th year? Seven full years and have things changed here at Pea Towers? Well some things have changed, I’m older, but more healthy so
S7E39 Poetry by the Sea
Powered by RedCircle Did you enjoy last week’s haiku from Dejan Pavlinović? If you’ve not heard it, go back and have a listen, he’s a lovely bloke and quite a poet too. This week we have more haiku, but this
S7E38 Poetry Pea Reading with Croatian Poet, Dejan Pavlinović
Powered by RedCircle I believe I have a treat for you today. We’re off to Croatia, yes, in the summer when the weather is beautiful and we’re going to meet with Dejan Pavlinović one of Croatia’s pre eminent haiku poets.
S7E37 Tanka Poetry – The Reforms
Powered by RedCircle Last time I outlined the development of waka, prior to the late 1800s and gave you some idea as to why waka was becoming a disappointing art. I left you with the promise that this time
S7E36 The Poetry that is Waka
Powered by RedCircle The next couple of months I’m going to intersperse our haiku and senryu poetry podcasts with podcasts about tanka, because we’re going to have a go at writing them in November 2024. Today I’m looking at
S7E35 Poetry The Senryū Way, part one
Powered by RedCircle Today’s poetry is our very first senryū only edition of the poetry pea podcast. If you don’t know what senryū is, and it is a bit tricky to define in one sentence, please go and have a
S7E34 It’s All About the Bees – Original Haiku Poetry
Powered by RedCircle poetrypea.com brings you a podcast of haiku all about the bees, well, more or less. The first poems were inspired by the Poetry Pea Video prompt which you can find on the Poetry Pea YouTube channel.
S7E33 Madku featuring West Coast Poet, Bona M Santos
Powered by RedCircle How to let off steam by writing short poetry with Bona M Santos. You will find the slides on the YouTube version, otherwise if you are an Issa or a Buson member they will be sent to