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Once again, we had distinct pleasure of choosing ten haiku from each of our seasonal issues to submit to the Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Awards 2025. Click here to spend a few moments with transportive haiku that guided us through the year...
Amongst myriad other features, Paul Chambers translates a haiku sequence composed by Lorca and explores the haiku's links to the deep song of flamenco in an essay first published in the Times Literary Supplement.
Step into a Spring of haiku, haibun, and haiga from poets around the world, each attending to the season’s subtle unfolding: the lengthening days; the returning light; the small awakenings between moments. From early stirrings to the first sense of summer, this edition gathers Spring in all its shades and moods. Explore the Spring ’26 Edition and join our growing global community of readers and writers as we move through the season.
Welcome to the Word Emporium - our companion space, where words are gathered for their precision, rarity, and quiet wonder. Drawn from nature, culture, and the turning seasons, each offers a small doorway into deeper noticing and poetic attention.
