Bibliography
Web Site Links
There are many web sites around related to Haiku, but rather than list them all here we refer you to the sites below, the first two of which contain vast arrays of links:-
Mark Alan Osterhaus
Serebella
Japanese Haiku Poetry Resources
The Haiku Guru
Red Thread Haiku Sangha
Redthread was founded nearly ten years ago by a dozen haiku poets committed to transcendence. All of them follow some form of religious meditation practice and all seek to write haiku with an existential resonance: haiku with echoes of the Silence - as well as of the noise of the world. The Redthread Haiku Sangha website is a place where like-minded travellers on the path (whether they hack their way with machetes or get carried in litters!) can exchange poetry and ideas in a fellowship of conversation. Explore the site, and you will also find out about haibun prose-poetry experiments, and mountain retreats.
Another site that comes highly recommended is Haiku Spirit Books
|
| Title |
A Zen Wave |
| Author |
Robert Aitken
|
| Publisher |
Weatherhill |
| Date |
1978 |
| Comment |
Analysis of 30 or so Basho haiku with Zen spirit.
|
|
| |
| Title |
Basho and his Interpreters |
| Author |
Makoto Ueda |
| Publisher |
Stanford University Press |
| Date |
1992 |
| Comment |
Gives the Japanese, literal and literary translations, and commentaries. |
|
| |
| Title |
Children's Haiku |
| Author |
John Ashbery et al |
| Publisher |
CandyHall |
| Date |
1995 |
| Comment |
Results of JAL worldwide children's haiku competition. Lovely. |
|
| |
| Title |
Haiku (Four volumes) |
| Author |
R H Blyth |
| Publisher |
Hokuseido Press |
| Date |
1981 |
| Comment |
The great work which translated classic haiku for us, beautifully |
|
| |
| Title |
Masaoka Shiki |
| Author |
Janine Beichman |
| Publisher |
Kodansha |
| Date |
1986 |
| Comment |
Late 19th c Japanese haiku master. |
|
| |
| Title |
Matsuo Basho |
| Author |
Makoto Ueda |
| Publisher |
Kodansha |
| Date |
1982 |
| Comment |
Biography with a strong focus on the works of poetry.
|
|
| |
| Title |
Mountain Tasting |
| Author |
Santoka Taneda, translated by John Stevens |
| Publisher |
Weatherhill |
| Date |
1980 |
| Comment |
Wonderful minimalist translations of 20thc Zen wanderer |
|
| |
| Title |
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
|
| Author |
Basho, translated Lucien Stryk |
| Publisher |
Penguin Classics |
| Date |
1985 |
| Comment |
Stryk's translations are full of vigour and surprises. Lovely |
|
| |
| Title |
Tadpoles: Haiku by British schoolchildren |
| Author |
David Cobb, editor |
| Publisher |
British Haiku Society |
| Date |
1999 |
| Comment |
Mixed batch of children's first attempts. |
|
| |
| Title |
Teaching Through Poetry: Writing and the Drafting Process |
| Author |
George Marsh |
| Publisher |
Hodder and Stoughton |
| Date |
1988 |
| Comment |
Book for teachers by the author of this website.
|
|
| |
| Title |
The Autumn Wind: the poems of Issa |
| Author |
Lewis Mackenzie |
| Publisher |
Kodansha |
| Date |
1984 |
| Comment |
Fifty pages of Issa's life, and translations of his poems. |
|
| |
| Title |
The Classic Tradition of Haiku |
| Author |
Faubion Bowers |
| Publisher |
Dover Thrift Editions |
| Date |
1996 |
| Comment |
Another anthology of classic haiku in translation, very cheap. |
|
| |
| Title |
The Genius of Haiku: Readings from R H Blyth |
| Author |
British Haiku Society |
| Publisher |
British Haiku Society |
| Date |
1994 |
| Comment |
Anthology of the critical writings of the brilliantly eccentric Blyth. |
|
| |
| Title |
The Haiku Anthology |
| Author |
Cor Van den Heuvel |
| Publisher |
Simon and Schuster |
| Date |
1991 |
| Comment |
Impressive anthology of American haiku writers |
|
| |
| Title |
The Haiku Handbook |
| Author |
William J Higginson |
| Publisher |
Kodansha |
| Date |
1989 |
| Comment |
An introduction to all haiku issues, including writing them |
|
| |
| Title |
The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World |
| Author |
William J Higginson |
| Publisher |
Kodansha |
| Date |
1996 |
| Comment |
Emphasis on the "season-word." |
|
| |
| Title |
The Iron Book of British Haiku
|
| Author |
David Cobb and Martin Lucas, editors |
| Publisher |
Iron Press |
| Date |
1998 |
| Comment |
Anthology of some of the best new haiku in English
|
|
| |
| Title |
The Japanese Haiku |
| Author |
Kenneth Yasuda |
| Publisher |
Tut Books, Tuttle |
| Date |
1973 |
| Comment |
Dry academic account of haiku. |
|
| |
| Title |
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
|
| Author |
Basho, translated by Noboyuki Yuasa |
| Publisher |
Penguin Classics |
| Date |
1966 |
| Comment |
The classic travel-sketches studded with haiku. Good introduction. |
|
| |
| Title |
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
|
| Author |
Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite |
| Publisher |
Penguin |
| Date |
1964 |
| Comment |
Useful anthology of Japanese poetry |
|
| |
| Title |
The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry |
| Author |
Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto |
| Publisher |
Penguin |
| Date |
1981 |
| Comment |
Chinese and Japanese poems, including haiku, thrillingly translated |
|
| |
| Title |
The Sound of Water |
| Author |
Sam Hamill |
| Publisher |
Shambhala Centaur Editions |
| Date |
1995 |
| Comment |
Another anthology of classic haiku, well translated |
|
| |
| Title |
The Spring Journey to the Saxon Shore
|
| Author |
David Cobb |
| Publisher |
Equinox Press |
| Date |
1997 |
| Comment |
Lively , very interesting stab at Basho's travel-sketch form, studded with haiku. |
|
| |
| Title |
The Waning Moon Haiku Poets
|
| Author |
Michael Gunton, Cicely Hill,
James Norton, George Marsh |
| Publisher |
Waning Moon Press |
| Date |
1997 |
| Comment |
Beautiful books by the poets quoted in the lessons on this website. |
|
| |
| Title |
Writings from Japan
|
| Author |
Lafcadio Hearn |
| Publisher |
Penguin Classics |
| Date |
1984 |
| Comment |
Wonderful appreciation of the culture of late 19th c Japan.
|
|
to the top
|
"In The Moonlight a Worm..." is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England Site designed and hosted by Community Internet Services
Waning Moon Press can be contacted by e-mailing
|
