Time for a bit more tanka poetry, because if you are listening to this in real time, the beginning of November 2024, submissions are open for tanka, your deadline the 15th November.This episode is about the poet Yosano Akiko, an extraordinary woman, mother, poet, essayist, traveller, co-founder of a school for girls. A feminist of her time and a woman who wrote great tanka.Hear her work, learn something of her life, find out what people thought of her in her lifetime.Show Notes

This time on Poetry Pea you will hear the senryu written in response to Bona M Santos' presentation on madku.Bona, along with Lynne Jambor, Matthew Defibaugh, Alvin B Cruz and Katherine E Winnick, chose their favourite poems to nominate for the judges' choice and tell us why. Check the show notes for more info.If you've enjoyed what you've heard, please give us a review and maybe think of sponsoring the podcast with a membership or buying us a coffee.Thanks for joining us.

Thanks to Poetry Pea's host Alex and to the poets from India who came along to tell us about Triveni Haikai India and read some of their poetry for us. Thanks to Triveni Haikai India who collaborated with Poetry Pea on this episode.You will find our more about the poets and a link to Triveni Haikai India in the show notes. Of course the poets will also feature in the Poetry Pea Journal 5:24.Enjoy!

Today we are celebrating the humble tortoise in poetry, here at Poetry Pea. If you are a regular you may well know that this little reptile is one of my favourites, actually I think it's the only reptile I could say I like. I’ve wanted to have one as a pet since I was a small child. Sadly, it’s never happened, but when Linda Ludwig sent me a video of a cute little chap having lunch, taken by her daughter Renee, it was a shoe in for the video prompt. Thanks Renee.show notes

Today Patricia at Poetry pea with help from Vandana Parashar, brings you contemporary Tanka poetry.How to write themTopics to write aboutExamples of poetry to inspire youshow notes

It’s our birthday.Can you believe that Poetry Pea is going into our 8th year?Seven full years and have things changed here at Pea Towers? Well some things have changed, I’m older, but more healthy so bad news and good news there.I was curious as to how the podcast had changed, I barely remember the early days (post-menopausal brain and the recent bump to the head probably). So today I'm going to revisit a couple of podcasts from the early days.How do you think things have changed?Can you help with my dreadful poem?show notes

Did you enjoy last week’s haiku from Dejan Pavlinović? If you’ve not heard it, go back and have a listen, he’s a lovely bloke and quite a poet too. This week on the Poetry PeaCast we have more haiku, but this time original poetry from a number of poets, from all around the globe. We’re hearing the poetry written for August’s video prompt. A lovely video from Arvinder Kaur which took us to the seaside.Show notesYouTube Channel

I believe I have a treat for you today. We’re off to Croatia, yes, in the summer when the weather is beautiful and we’re going to meet with Dejan Pavlinović one of Croatia’s pre eminent haiku poets. He’s going to read from a couple of his solo works, one of which has just launched, yes, you are one of the first people to hear this work, Life Lines.Links in the show notesAlso available on YouTube

Last time I outlined the development of waka, prior to the late 1800s and gave you some idea as to why waka was becoming a disappointing art. I left you with the promise that this time you were going to hear what happened to waka during the initial tanka reforms and thereafter.So that’s what I have for you today. Tanka reforms, the initial ideas and the concepts and movements that flowed from them. It's more interesting than you might think. Of course I do have lots of poems to read to you as well.show notes

The next couple of months I’m going to intersperse our haiku and senryu poetry podcasts with podcasts about tanka, because we’re going to have a go at writing them in November 2024.Today I’m looking at the premodern period, so a poetry type known as waka, composed before the tanka reforms of the late 1800s. By the end of the podcast you should know a bit about the history of waka and see the development of the form in this pre tanka world. It’s starting to look like something we might just recognise in our contemporary works. Don’t worry if you don’t immediately get them, we’ll look at them again.Links in the show notes

Today’s poetry is our very first senryū only edition of the poetry pea podcast. If you don’t know what senryū is, and it is a bit tricky to define in one sentence, please go and have a listen to the few podcasts I’ve recorded, including the podcast with Bona M Santos who came along to inspire you to write for the next call out in September 2024. Links will be in the show notes so do go and have a look and a listen or of course a watch. There are slides for Bona's presentation on YouTube. In case you didn’t know or have not subscribed to our YouTube channel it is quite simply Poetry Pea.Show notes.

poetrypea.com brings you a podcast of haiku all about the bees, well, more or less. The first poems were inspired by the Poetry Pea Video prompt which you can find on the Poetry Pea YouTube channel. There's a prompt every month except December. You can leave your poems in the comments section (as many as you want) and Linda will read them and chose some to feature on the podcast and in the Poetry Pea Journal. Go on you know you want to do it! Then in the second section Patricia reads more original bee haiku from past Journals. It really is a favourite topic. Head over to the show notes for links. If there's something missing, email me.

Don't get mad... write some poetry.How to let off steam by writing short poetry with Bona M Santos.You will find the slides on the YouTube version, otherwise if you are an Issa or a Buson member they will be sent to your inbox, as long as I have the right email address. Membership information on the website.Show notes here.

A short tribute to Deborah P Kolodji and some senryū poetry to inspire you to write outside your comfort zone.Push your writing boundaries!If you enjoy this podcast, make sure you are subscribed and tell your friends to join us at poetry pea.comShow notes

This week you can hear the poems chosen from the Poetry Pea Video prompt from June. Have you left your poetry in the comments this month? You'll find it on the Poetry Pea YouTube channel. Thanks to Linda for reading all the entries and choosing this selection for the podcast and the Poetry Pea Journal.Episode webpage.

poetrypea.com presents haiku poetry celebrating the seasons. In part two of this mini series you will hear poems from Autumn and Winter. If you are on the Poetry Pea mailing list you will know why I’ve featured these poems to inspire your writing. If you are not…quick, sign up!If you’ve enjoyed these poems please like and share and maybe you can think about becoming a member or buying us a coffee. Details on the website. We’d be very grateful.Show notes here

This is part 1 of a miniseries on haiku seasons. This week Spring & Summer, next week Autumn & Winter. Those of you on the Poetry Pea mailing list will know why I'm highlighting seasonal poetry. If you are not on the mailing list there is still time to sign up and be involved in something a little special. Sign up now!Thank you for joining us today if you've enjoyed it, please consider buying us a coffee or becoming a member, with benefits to you.If you could tell your haiku friends about us too, that would be fabulous.Show notes here

poetrypea.com presents the Irish writer Diarmuid Fitzgerald who reads to us from his books Thames Way and A Thousand Sparks, published by Alba publishing.I smiled for days when editing this. I hope you enjoy it too.Show notes here.

Come on a bike ride with me to the lake and back via the woods, river and farm and along the way we'll enjoy some haiku and senryū poetry written especially for the podcast and some senryū to inspire you to write.Check out the show notes here.

Today we have oodles of original poetry, haiku and senryū, written by you about one single object.Much like beauty, the object is often in the eye of the author and the reader and so some of you might disagree with some of our choices, which as you know I don’t have a problem with. if you do disagree, slip me an email and let me know why. We won’t fall out about it.I promised you a journal out at the end of the month and so far I think I’m going to be able to do it, it will be journal 3:24 if you are over at Buy me a Coffee, but fear not, if you are on the mailing list you will be notified as soon as it’s out and of course if you are an Issa or Buson member then it will fall effortlessly into your in box.Show notes

Next month, July 2024, we are writing senryū together. To inspire your creativity and to give you a background in the history of senryū I’m running a series of podcasts all about them. This is the second one, the first was episode 23 of this series, so it would make sense to go back and listen or watch that one before you crack on with this.Unfortunately while I was preparing for this series of podcasts, my dear husband brought a rather nasty cold into the house and kindly shared it with me, and I spent more time sleeping away the virus than I would have liked, so apologies, this podcast isn’t as long as I’d like it to be, but I do have some great senryū to share with you, recommendations for what we’d like to see in the submissions and a little story.Hello I’m Patricia and you are most welcome to join me on a journey to senryū on this the Poetry Pea Cast.Show notes here at poetrypea.com

Today at poetrypea.com I’m inviting you to head off with me to my old summer stomping ground, the Irish countryside. For a reading of poetry, more particularly haibun.We’re going to meet the poet and farmer Jeremy Haworth and listen to the poems he wrote while he was learning his farming craft.“in Four Season farm, Jeremy Haworth’s writing is skilled, deliberate and accomplished. It is honest, humble and refreshing. Written in a clear and original voice, Four Season farm is a remarkable debut and a delightful read.” Sean O’ConnorIn 2019 Jeremy won the Cúirt New Writing Prize.Episode show notes here.

Over the next month or so I’ll be looking at senryū. At why senryū are often seen as a lesser form of poetry, at senryū in the pre modern era in Japan, ie. pre 1868 and how they developed from that point on both in the Japan and in the English speaking world.It has been a fascinating study from a poetry and an historical point of view. I’ve always thought that haiku can instruct us about life in the past, but as I hope to show you, senryū can give you a fascinating insight into the past.It has also left me with a couple of historical events that I’ll bring you at some time in the future.A reminder to make sure you are signed up to the Poetry Pea mailing as a very important email will be going out very, very soon, which if you write poetry, you will not want to miss.Also a favour, if you could review the podcast, or like and share it with other poets that would be fantastic. Thank you.Today I’m going to have a look at pre modern senryū.At the end of my podcasts on senryū, and there will be a couple at least, I will have an essay for you. You lovely bunch who support the podcast with memberships will be sent a copy, but it will be available via buy me a coffee for everyone else to purchase.Show notes here.

This week poetrypea.com presents you with the haiku & senryu poems chosen by Linda to feature on the Podcast from the Poetry Pea YouTube prompt. There's one every month (except December).Issa and Buson members will get a copy of the poems featured today, but if you are not a member and you'd like to read them you can buy the next Poetry Pea journal, 3:24 out at the end of June. If you become a member in time you will receive it as one of the perks.For links in todays Peacast do click here for the show notes.

poetrypea.com presents a live reading of haiku & senryū poetry from the collection Off The Main Road. The poets and editors are joined by a global audience to celebrate the launch of this new collection of haiku & senryū. This collection is a book poetry from 6 poets who have not yet had their single collections published, but on the evidence of this reading... that day is not so far away.Show notes here

Patricia from poetrypea.com records a little postcard for all poetry lovers. This week a reading from a haibun by Thomas Festa, a short form that combines poetry and prose. There's a call for haibun submissions this month. Don't miss it.Show notes here

While she takes a little RnR, Patricia has recorded a postcard for poetry lovers. A little bit about seasons in haiku and then a split sequence, the editor's choice from the recent Poetry Pea journal of split sequences, Split Peas.Show notes here

Joshua Gage, haiku guru, came along and gave Poetry Pea a masterclass in Toriawase and how to use it to write your haiku. In fact I think you could use it in any writing practice. We then asked you to write some haiku and senryu using the prompts he suggested in the workshop.I was chatting to some of the editing team a little while ago and they mentioned that the submissions for Toriawase were really accomplished, so thank you to Joshua for supplementing our knowledge and to all you poets who sent us poems as a result of his prompts. Today, I’m going to read a selection of them to you…Don't forget there will be more in the Poetry Pea Journal 2:24. Make sure you are signed up for our newsletter to find out when it's published. You don't want to miss it.Here's a link to the show notes.

Poetry Pea presents poems spoken out loud. In this episode the successful poems from the Poetry Pea Video Prompt.If you'd like to feature on the podcast and in the Poetry Pea bi-monthly journal, you can go to the Poetry Pea YouTube channel and leave your poem in the comments. You can submit as often as you'd like and Linda will read them and choose her favourites to feature.There's one every month except December and the submission period is open all month.Check out the show notes here

Poetry Pea presents a live poetry reading, haiku and haibun from a group of North American poets, from, shall we say, a younger generation of poets.Read the show notes here.Thanks to Alex for hosting of this episode and to our lovely poets:Antoinette CheungNicky GutierezCarly Siegel ThorpAri Azimuth aka Brown WeaselRyland LiMatt Snyder, one of Poetry Pea's Renga mastersYvette Nicole KolodjiEdward Cody HuddlestonTheir bio's are in the show notes, their unpublished haiku will be in the next Poetry Pea Journal.If you know them, do let them know how brilliantly they did.

A companion podcast to S7E14. This podcast by Poetry Pea offers:more examples of poems by the disciples of the master haiku poet Bashoillustrations of the single object method of writingan answer to the the question: all hokku are single object poems, aren't they?You may not agree, in which case, let me know.Hope you enjoy the poetry, it's always lovely to hear poetry spoken aloud, isn't it?

On this podcast from Poetry Pea you will learn:How to write single object haiku & senryu poetry and get your work published using a variety of techniquesReversing expectationToriawaseUsing sensesSketch from lifeLooking beyond the boundaryYūgenShow notes here.You can submit haiku & senryū for this topic to Poetry Pea May 1-15 2024.Become a member

featuring the UK poet, Katherine E Winnick. Poetry Pea presents the Anthology To Live here, published by Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, proceeds of which go to charity. Show notes.Become a member

This week Poetry Pea features some original haiku from the February video prompt on The Poetry Pea YouTube channel. If you'd like to feature please add your poetry to the comments on the latest video prompt on YouTube. There's some exciting news for all you poets and writers out there.Become a member

Is this a tourism advert for Monhegan Island off the coast of America? No, it's a reading from one of Maine's premier short form poets. A master of haiku, Kristen Lindquist illustrates her prowess in the haibun form too in her reading from her latest book, Island. The book is inspired by Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine.Show notes.Become a member

Poetrypea.com has a visit from Craig Kittner at Ghosts on Vacay. We discuss many, many writing topics, but why should you listen?We discuss:What’s your writing process?Do you sometimes have periods when your need to unlock your creativity?What his process and website can offer you in your journey to become a better writerWhether you write poetry or prose, there's something for you.Show notesBecome a member

Poetry Spoken here: Today poetrypea.com presents a podcast of original haiku and senryu alluding to other pieces of literature for example:Harry PotterLittle Red Riding HoodWinnie the PoohAn opportunity for poets to let their haiku imaginations run riot.Five judges join Patricia to choose their favourite of the original poems. Will you agree with them?Show notesBecome a member

There are few things better in life than listening to poetry. This podcast from poetrypea.com brings you haiku and senryu written for the video prompt on the Poetry Pea YouTube channel (you submit by writing your poem in the comments... there's a prompt every month, except December) AND our latest successful flashku, more wonderful haiku and senryu from Poetry Pea's listeners and viewers. Poets on our mailing list are invited to submit to this spontaneous call out for poetry and then we celebrate by listening to them and reading them in the Poetry Pea Journal... these will be in Journal 1:24. Check the website to see how to download it.Show NotesBecome a member

What influences your writing?CultureEmigrationTravelInteracting with other writersor other things.Meet Indian poet, living in the US, Sangita Kalarickal.Have a listen at poetrypea.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Then email me and let me know what influences you.Become a membershow notes

poetrypea.com presents the American poet Joshua Gage, one of editing team at Cuttlefish books who tells us:What Toriawase isHow we can use it to improve all our poetryGives us a recipe for haiku punch, available on the websiteJoin us for a poetry drinking game, you can drink tea, I will!Become a memberShow notes

poetrypea.com presents a podcast looking at:What happened to German haiku poetry after the second world war?What is the inner emmigration movement in literature?Listen to haiku poetry in English and German.Be inspired to write some poems of your own.Become a memberShow notes

poetrypea.com presents a workshop.When did haiku come to EuropeWhat did it look likeWould we recognise it as haiku todayWhat book was published in 1939 that had an impactBecome a memberShow notes

In this second part of a conversation with the preeminent poet George Swede about his book "The Way A Poem Emerges, A Haiku Trinity and Beyond, Patricia and George strive to get to grips with the differences between haiku / senryu and short form poetry, amongst other things. We'd love your response, do get in touch.Become a memberShow notes

A Haiku Trinity.poetrypea.com has a visit from the eminent poet George Swede. He reads to us from his book, "The way a poem emerges, a haiku trinity" and we discuss the haiku form and the benefits to your health of writing haiku. It's fun, it's thoughtful and a great way to start the year of short form poetry that Poetry Pea has in store for you.Become a memberShow notes

poetrypea.com presents a podcast of poetry written especially for Poetry Pea. Some you are hearing them for the first time, some you will have read them in our poetry Journal. All of the poets are superb. Find out which poems Poetry Pea nominated for the Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards. Check out the submission diary on the website... perhaps you will have your work nominated next year.Become a memberShow notes

poetrypea.com presents a podcast of poetry following the creative, Zoka. Patricia is joined by poets from India and the USA to discuss the haiku & senryu and to award this month's Judges' choice. If you had your submission chosen, well done, if you were unsuccessful, there will be a next time. Check out all the submission possibilities on the webs site.

poetrypea.com presents the final part of a three part series on allusive variation in poetry. This time Honzetsu, in which a piece of prose writing is the foundation piece. Lots of contemporary poetic examples and some long form poetry in this edition too. Themes of sadness, death, decay, age and bravado, as well as the wistfulness of children's stories.

poetrypea.com presents a workshop about honkadori, which is allusive variation in poetry. This is part 2 of three podcasts. If you've not listened to part 1, it's the previous episode, do go and have a listen. How can you as poets use allusion to create, fresh, unique poems? Well hopefully this will answer that question and inspire you to write.