Senryu

Postscript

Well that’s it! You were great company. I’m still writing haiku so maybe we’ll catch up with another reading sometime.

Thanks especially to editors – Paul Chambers and Joe Woodhouse (Wales Haiku Journal), Caroline Skanne (hedgerow: a journal of small poems), and Alan Summers (The Pan Haiku Review/Blo͞o Outlier Journal) who were the first to publish many of the haiku included here and continue to do so.

I’m not a prolific writer of haiku so it’s been an honour to have some of them taken up by other well known journals. Thanks then to the editors of …

failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu
Presence Haiku Journal
first frost – journal of haiku & senryu
tsuri-dōrō – a small journal of haiku, senryū
Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
民句 folk ku: a journal in honour of Masaoka Shiki

With special thanks to Colin Blundell, a former President of the British Haiku Society and fellow traveller along the byeways of ‘Jefferies Land’, who unwittingly, sparked my interest in writing haiku.

To Paul Chambers the then editor of the Wales Haiku Journal, and award winning haiku poet, who took my very naive, gawkish first attempts at writing haiku and helped me work them up into something worthy of the name.

And to Jodie Hawthorne of King River Press whose energy and enthusiasm for following her own dreams inspired me to follow mine.

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About the Author

‘I’m older than I look … and younger than I am’ — Clive Bennett

Sometime philosopher, thinker, dreamer, birdwatcher, poet, and occasional writer. Living and writing in beautiful North Wales.

in memoriam

we never talked …

undiagnosed
a difficult child …
if only he knew

the hurt inside
not knowing myself

(In the form of a cherita turbalik 1-3-2 (ai li))