Writer's Guide to Haiku and Its Related Forms

A practical guide to composing haiku and its related forms, this book uses international examples as well as prompts and exercises to introduce writers to one of the richest and most concise forms of poetry. Citing poems from haiku’s inception in Japan to contemporary examples and translations from Eastern Europe, India, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, How to Write Haiku covers haiku’s celebration of nature, its thoughtful and philosophical depths as well as the forms bound up in its evolution, from tanka and haibun to renga and haiga.With an intuitive approach that offers playful experiments to generate material quickly and spontaneously, Owen Bullock looks forward to the form’s collaborative and hybrid potential as well as its associations with mindfulness, focusing on the present moment, and valuing attention and non-judgmental attitudes. A true celebration of what haiku can do whilst anticipating what could come next, How to Write Haiku shows what we can learn from the form and how it can deepen our understanding of writing in general.