Powered by RedCircle Links: A drop of Ink, Shiki, trs Janine Beichman-Yamamoto Bashō: The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, trs Nobuyuki Yuasa Narrow Road to the Interior and Other Writings, Matsuo Bashō, trs Sam Hamill
S8E16 Celebrating International Haiku Day
Powered by RedCircle We are celebrating haiku because this week, on the 17th April, it’s international haiku day. I thought today would be a good day to celebrate some fantastic haiku, award winners from the first five years of the
S8E15 A Reading with Poet Roman Lyakhovetsky
Powered by RedCircle As you probably know by now, the Little Marvels haiku anthology which Poetry Pea Press publishes will be all about belonging and alienation this year. Do you want to be in it? Well no guarantees of course,
S8E14 A Whisper of Moths, poetically
Powered by RedCircle Poetry Pea presents short form poetry about moths. You can read them in the latest Poetry Pea Journal 1:25. My eternal thanks to Linda Ludwig who curates the poems from the video prompt. She reads every
S8E13 Original Scifi Ku
Powered by RedCircle On this week’s Poetry Peacast I have something rather special for you. We’re going to other worlds, which as a major star trek and star wars nerd makes me happy, even happier that we are going
S8E12 Death Poetry part 2
Powered by RedCircle This week, I’m going to be continuing with the theme of death poetry, taking a look at some interesting areas: Anyone who doesn’t want to listen to poems on these tough subjects, maybe come back next week.
S8E11 Death Poetry Part 1
Powered by RedCircle Today’s podcast is about Death Poetry, more specifically on Jisei, Zekku, and 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
S8E10 International Women’s Day in Poetry
Powered by RedCircle Today I’m bringing you some haiku and senryu written by women. Some you might have seen before in other publications, some from our own publication, and some original work written especially for the occasion. To read more
S8E9 What’s the Theme of this week’s poetry podcast?
Powered by RedCircle I’d like you to have a guess. Here’s a clue, there are two and it’s not the obvious… it’s clearly haiku so what else? Tell me on X Instagram Bluesky Tag me so I see it! I
S8E8 Poetry of Alienation
Powered by RedCircle 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
