Debra Woolard Bender (US)
haiga: "yard birds" - previously unpublished
haiga: "cup of tea" - previously unpublished
haiku: "priming" - previously unpublished
john bird (AU)
haiku: "a brown snake" - previously unpublished
Mark Brooks (US)
haiku: "new hammock" - Modern Haiku Vol XXXII, No 1
haiku: "mom's birthday" - previously unpublished
Tom Clausen (US)
haiku: "spring frost" - previously unpublished
haiku: "she wanders away" - previously unpublished
John Crook (UK) — spotlight
article: "humour in haiku" - previously unpublished
haiku: "spring downpour" - Presence No 11 (2000)
haiku: "lunch break" - previously unpublished
haiku: "the sunny park" - previously unpublished
haiku: "falling leaves" - Blithe Spirit Vol IX, No 4 (December, 1999)
haiku: "hill walk" - Blithe Spirit Vol X, No 3 (September, 2000)
haiku: "summer solstice" - 2nd place, WHF 2000 Competition and London/Gunma Anthology
haibun: "Kukai Party" - previously unpublished
haiku: "morning light" - previously unpublished
haiku: "frosty walk" - previously unpublished
haiku: "hospice visiting time" - previously unpublished
haiku: "a calm night" - Presence No 12 (2000)
haiku: "lost in the stars" - previously unpublished
Angelee Deodhar (IN)
haiga: "frog in one" - previously unpublished
Del Doughty (US)
haiku: "his life story . . . again" - previously unpublished
haiku: "a big snowfall" - previously unpublished
Marlene Egger (US)
haiku: "Valentine's Day" - previously unpublished
Gerald England (UK)
haiku: "using a brochure" - Sparrow (Croatia), 1999
Victor Gendrano (US)
haiku: "hot summer day" - previously unpublished
Barry George (US)
haiku: "night meditation" - previously unpublished
Carolyn Hall (US)
haiku: "bamboo gardens" - South by Southeast VII:2 (2000)
haiku: "attic window" - South by Southeast VII:1 (2000)
haiku: "giant sequoias" - previously unpublished
haiku: "summer squall" - previously unpublished
William J. Higginson (US)
article: "Humor in Bashô's Hokku: I The Childlike" - previously unpublished
Jim Kacian (US)
haiku: "out fishing" - previously unpublished
haiku: "gusty day" - previously unpublished
haiku: "church bells" - still
Bruce Kennedy (US)
haiku: "misty rain" - from an upside down bucket (Hermit's Eye Press, Oct. 2000)
haiku: "dogwood in bloom" - from an upside down bucket (Hermit's Eye Press, Oct. 2000)
haiku: "autumn evening" - previously unpublished
Joann Klontz (US)
haiku: "dangerous curve" - previously unpublished
Yasuomi Koganei (JP)
haiku: "Frozen Manhattan" - previously unpublished
haiku: "Ninety-third birthday" - Meguro International Friendship Association Haiku Book, 1999
Angelika Kolompar (CA)
haiku: "at 12:03" - previously unpublished
Peggy Willis Lyles (US)
haiku: "three odd socks" - previously unpublished
haiku: "one crow" - previously unpublished
Paul MacNeil (US)
haiku: "road's edge" - previously unpublished
Sue Mill (AU)
haiku: "leaky roof" - previously unpublished
Emile Molhuysen (NL)
haiku: "spring storm" - previously unpublished
haiku: "wiping the full moon" - previously unpublished
Kilmeny Niland (AU)
haiku: "wires-crossed" - previously unpublished
Christopher Patchel (US)
haiku: "art museum" - previously unpublished
Matthew Paul (UK)
haiku: "packed platform" - previously unpublished
Linda Robeck (US)
haiku: "winter rain" - previously unpublished
haiku: "first snow" - previously unpublished
Timothy Russell (US)
haiku: "flea market" - previously unpublished
haiku: "last light" - previously unpublished
Ken Saito (JP)
haiku: "leaving each" - previously unpublished
Kuniharu Shimizu (JP)
haiga (Basho haiku): "breakfast" - from see haiku here
haiga (Crook haiku): "a calm night" - from see haiku here
haiga (Swede haiku): "almost unseen" - from see haiku here
haiga (Tomé haiku): "slowly the fly" - from see haiku here
haiga (Yoshiumura haiku): "cats in love" - from see haiku here
haiga (Yoshiumura haiku): "manjushaka swallows" - from see haiku here
Carmen Sterba (JP)
haiku: "clear winter sky" - Asahi Haikuist Network, winter 1998
haiku: "indoor pool" - previously unpublished
George Swede (CA) — spotlight
all haiku are from Almost Unseen: Selected Haiku of George Swede (Brooks Books 2000)
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)
article: "Sense of Humour - A Forgotten Prerequisite of Haiku" - previously unpublished
Cindy Tebo (US)
haiku: "laundromat" - previously unpublished
Serge Tomé (BE)
article: "Humour in the Western Haiku" - previously unpublished
haiku (in haiga): "slowly the fly" - previously unpublished
Charles Trumbull (US)
haiku: "blood-red poinsettias" - previously unpublished
Paul Watsky (US)
haiku: "a short beer" - previously unpublished
Michael Dylan Welch (US)
article: "The Difference Between Haiku and Senryu" - previously unpublished
haiku: "voice on the trail" - from Thornewood Poems (Haiku Canada Sheet, 1998).
haiku: "after the quake" - first published in Frogpond XIII: 1, February 1990. This poem has since been republished multiple times, including: The Haiku Anthology (third edition), Cor van den Heuvel, ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999); Global Haiku: Twenty-five Poets World-wide, George Swede and Randy M. Brooks, eds. (Iron Press, 2000); Open Window [online book at Brooks Books Web site, March 2000); and Best of the Electronic Poetry Network, Carlos Colon, Barbara Verrett Moore, and Jeffrey L. Salter, eds. (Shreveport, Louisiana: Shreveport Regional Arts Council Literary Panel, 2000).
haiku: "sudden lightning" - First published in Modern Haiku XXIX: 2, Summer 1998; also published in Snow on the Water: Red Moon Anthology 1998 (Winchester, Virginia: Red Moon Press, 1999).
Billie Wilson (US)
haiku: "express line checkout" - previously unpublished
haiku: "online weather page" - previously unpublished
Sheila Windsor (UK)
haiga: "the old dunny's roof"- previously unpublished artwork
haiku: "April hailstones" - previously unpublished
haiku: "Halloween flood" - previously unpublished
Ikuyo Yoshimura (JP) — spotlight
article: "haiku with humour" - previously unpublished
haiku: "seashore at dawn" - Honeysuckle (August 2000)
haiku: "jazz concert" - Spring Thunder (1996)
haiku: "a shadow of an airship" - Poetry Nippon (December, 2000)
haiku: "thunder in the distance" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 68 (1990)
haiku: "cultivator" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 55 (1990)
haiku: "bowing slightly" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 36 (1990)
haiku (in haiga): "cats in love" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 41 (1990)
haiku: "moonlit night" - Spring Thunder (1996)
haiku: "shiny icicles" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 85 (1990)
haiku: "weeding the garden" - Spring Thunder (1996)
haiku: "spring nearby" - Spring Thunder (1996)
haiku (in haiga): "manjushaka swallows" - Honeysuckle (August 2000)
Nobuyuki Yuasa (JP)
article: "Laughter in Japanese Haiku"
Professor Yuasa's essay and biography were reprinted from Rediscovering Basho - A 300th Anniversary Celebration, Stephen Henry Gill & C. Andrew Gerstle ed., Global Oriental, 1999, ISBN 1-901903-15-X).
We are grateful to Professor Yuasa and to the publisher, Global Books Ltd., for their very kind permission to reprint the essay. Paul Norbury at Global Books was particularly helpful to us.
This is but one part of a collection of essays detailing Basho's effects on haiku today. We hope that you will consider purchasing this book for your own library.
Zolo (US)
