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Welcome back to the Haiku Pea Podcast. If you’re a regular you’ll know I’m Patricia if you are new here, you are most welcome. I hope you will become an active member of our haiku group, email me your thoughts, and of course take part in all our opportunities to submit and get your poetry out there.
Now April 2023 is a special month. International poetry day on the 17th (today!), hope you all enjoy it and the little bonus I did here at Poetry Pea to celebrate. You will find some great work on our YouTube Channel, Poetry Pea.
Why is April important here at Pea Towers, well, a couple of reasons:
- I’m going to try and bring you a little bit of haiku / senryu or haibun every Monday. Do subscribe to our YouTube channel Poetry Pea and / or our podcast Haiku Pea wherever you get your podcasts By the way, it’s in the top 5% of podcasts on Spotify and Apple. You can take us for walks, in the car, or listen to us while you do those mundane tasks. I listen when I’m on the stationary bike in the gym. Helps make the time fly.
- There will be another opportunity for you to get your poetry out into the world. I’ll be offering spontaneous, last-minute submission calls for haiku / senryu which I’ll then read on the Haiku Pea podcast. These will happen intermittently throughout the year and will only be offered to poets on the mailing list. Sign up on the website, you can unsubscribe if you find them too much.
Your mission if you choose to accept it
- sign up for the mailing on the website
- go to your podcast provider and subscribe to Haiku Pea
- Subscribe to the Poetry Pea YouTube Channel
- Download these poems and savour them at your leisure
- Tell all your poet friends about us and share our links… let the world rejoice in haiku as we do.
Now one last piece of housekeeping and we’re off to the original work that you’ve had accepted for this topic, reimagining haiku. If you are listening to this in April 2023 and sent me a split sequence or two last month. You will hear back by the end of this month. If you don’t, check your spam and if my reply isn’t there, email me.
Reimagining poetry.
The task was as hard, but maybe harder for the editing team, God Bless ‘em.
This was a great opportunity for you to practice allusion and linking and shifting, which you took advantage of and I am very proud of the work we accepted.
My thanks to the team, Lorraine A Padden, Vandana Parashar, Liam Maguire and Ronald K Craig for all the work you put in and all the messages we sent back and forth I learn so much from you. And a special thanks to Robert Horrobin who edits and has joined me in sending out replies. I think it’s the least a Journal can do to respect the poets who submit, send out reply. Don’t you?
Our judges get all the submissions and independently choose their favourite. We have four judges today, all of whom you’ll know for various reasons, but certainly because you’ve met them here before. Welcome to Lynne Jambor, Ravi Kiran, CX Turner, or Luci to her friends and Melanie Alberts. I’m very grateful to them for reading all the submissions, writing up their analysis for the journal and for spending time with me today. Don’t forget if you fancy doing it, it’s really quite fun, honest, do email me and volunteer.
You’ll find today’s poetry here ready for download. It’s free but if you can make a donation it would be much appreciated.
There will be many more wonderful haiku and senryu from this topic in the Poetry Pea Journal, out in July.
Link to Gabi Greve’s blog
Here’s an example of anthropomorphism from Issa, translated by David Lanoue
The kitten plays
hide and seek…
in bush clover
Thank you for coming along and listening, for submitting to Poetry Pea, whether you were successful or not, your submission was read, valued and respected.
Thank you to all the editing team here and today’s judges.
Til next time
Keep writing!
