The Anthology is out

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Here it is, a big book full of the best haiku from ten years of World Haiku Review. available as an ebook on Amazon, worldwide. A few links are below.

• Amazon.com

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• Amazon.in

Putting this wonderful anthology of outstanding haiku has been a delight. I will blog later about what it was like and some pictures from the book release in Pune.

The title, Fuga No Makoto means “truth, sincerity and honesty which a haikai poet needs to aim at when writing poems.”

Traditionally, Japanese haiku had three lines with 5-7-5 syllables and 17 syllables altogether. However, in contemporary English haiku, the 5-7-5 is no longer observed and any syllable count is acceptable so long as it does not exceed 17. This anthology has a select collection with some of the best of modern haiku.

The World Haiku Review is an online magazine which was a pioneer in the field of haiku – one of the first and most prominent magazines to take the Japanese poetic form and put it online for a wider audience. WHR set the stage for the worldwide expansion of the three-line, highly  imagistic verse form.

This is the Tenth Anniversary Anthology collecting only the top ten haiku from twenty-five issues of the World Haiku Review from 2008 to 2017. Here are some of the best haiku by some of the biggest names in the field, from countries all over the world. The poems are collected by subject, such as Morning Frost, A Cloud’s Drift, the Flower Moon, the Dream of You and so on. Also included are the Editor’s Choice haiku from each issue, complete with the notes of the editor-in-chief, Susumu Takiguchi, explaining why that verse was chosen.

A fascinating journey into a beautiful form of poetry with several hundred of the best international haiku for your reading delight. 

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Ten Years in the Making

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Announcing the book release of a big anthology.

This is a big one and has been a decade in the making. This is our ten year anniversary celebration – gleaning the very best haiku from ten years and twenty five issues of World Haiku Review into an anthology. Poets from all over the world.

The name Fuga No Makoto means poetic truth and simplicity.

It’s both a celebration and a lot of hard work. I have enjoyed reading all the poems again and spending time with poems from countries i know little about.

I am still working at the huge and painstaking job of putting the book together. Which involves putting the file together, editing, formatting, creating the cover and eventually, uploading. Its more work than I expected but satisfying at the end of it. It is taking shape slowly but surely. Soon, soon ….

So, the World Haiku Review will begin 2019 with its first book. Some really excellent poetry from some of the best poets in the field. I am sure this anthology will be a great addition to the field.

It will be available by the 1st of February as an ebook on Amazon. Print copies may come later, also on Amazon. And later in the year there will be a second volume, collecting the prose, the articles and editorials of those ten years.

Do look and if you are in Pune, see you there.

 

Pins on a map

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Our third anthology is up, pins on a map, from our very prolific Mumbai group which is just celebrating five years of banter, jokes, coffee, discussions, learning, three anthologies and a blog.

A few hiccups for this antho, but it sorted out in the end. Some great writers sent in poems and pieces about travel, covering most of this wonderful globe. Great reading.

Do take a look. It is available on Amazon as an ebook.

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Travel poetry

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Submissions are now open for Inhaiku Mumbai’s third annual anthology. After two successful anthologies, the taste of sea breeze and between sips of cutting chai, we are now open for a third one. (Both are available as ebooks on Amazon.)

The theme is travel and it is open to anyone, anywhere who would like to submit haiku, haibun, tanka or related forms. Send in your best travel poems for a chance to be published in these annual anthologies. Looking forward to seeing your work.

Submissions are open from 1st April 2018 to 15th June 2018. After that the editors will select and the anthology will be published as a Kindle ebook by Diwali, early November 2018.

Send in your best work to this email –

Inhaikumumbai@gmail.com

between sips of cutting chai

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The second anthology is up, between sips of cutting chai, a delightful collection of poetry – haiku, haibun, senryu and renku. One more anthology from the ever active IN haiku Mumbai group.

It is available as an ebook on Amazon. The links are here.

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If you thought poetry was boring take a look at this one. There is a section of haiku on trains, Mumbai’s local lifeline. Trianku. And another section on Mumbai’s cherished pick me up – cutting chai. This is chai so strong it is cut in half and only half a glass is served yet that is more than enough. Do read the chaiku.

We had fun putting it together, working long hours in coffee shops, braving the lashing Mumbai monsoon to put out a Diwali issue. So, here it is for your reading pleasure.

The second anthology generated a lot of interest and we got submissions from all over the world. There will be a third, so if you missed this one, do submit for the third one, next year. We read and discuss every single entry and take a group decision. As usual all submission periods will be up on this blog as soon as we open.

If you like this one check out our first anthology, the taste of sea breeze, which was published in 2016. Click on the picture for Amazon.in.

Doing well

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whiskers and purrs – a book of cat haiku – which I published a few days ago is doing very well at the moment.

Its at the top of the haiku list on Amazon.in.

A very big thank you to all the wonderful people who bought it.