Poetry Pea - haiku and other English Language Japanese short forms

220 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings

Poetry Pea is a poetry podcast from www.poetrypea.com. It features haiku and senryu and other Japanese short form poetry. There are lots of free writing resources, workshops from experts, readings of original poetry, haiku and senryu, as well as prompts and writing exercises. You can submit your haiku or senryu to Patricia and be featured on the podcast and in the Poetry Pea Journal. Let’s write together.

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Episodes

Episode 21 - Shasei, a sketch from life

April 09, 2018 15:27 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

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Episode 19 Heron, Seagull, Pigeon

March 26, 2018 15:19 - 7 minutes - 7.09 MB

The latest podcast from www.poetrypea.com This week Alan Summers helps me with the subject of articles. Giddy Nelsen Sweep features with her Haiku from Australia and I find a bit of peace and quiet with a seagull. Do you think that articles are the building blocks of haiku? What is “a bridge of nuance"? Why would a pigeon delay your breakfast? Does a heron belong in the underworld? The answer to these questions in the podcast. Seeking haiku submissions on the topic of breakfast where you l...

Episode 18 Articles, Lawnmowers and Worms

March 15, 2018 11:50 - 6 minutes - 6.36 MB

The latest podcast from www.poetrypea.com This week I’m happy to welcome back to the podcast as our guest Mineko Takahashi from Japan. If you remember she joined us on February the 19th. If you haven’t heard that episode then have a listen. Her Haiku was very moving. She has raised an interesting question with me this week, but more of that later. This week I wanted to briefly discuss definite and indefinite articles in the writing of Haiku. Sometimes I really want to leave them out and I h...

Episode 17 Ekphrastic Haiku

March 12, 2018 17:46 - 6 minutes - 5.9 MB

The latest Haiku Pea Podcast from www.poetrypea.com featuring Veronica Hosking from the US What do you know about Ekphrastic Haiku? Does it snow in the desert? What is your favourite art gallery?

Episode 16: The Birds

March 05, 2018 16:01 - 9 minutes - 8.43 MB

A podcast from poetrypea.com exploring Haiku. This week we are talking one image Haiku and featuring Eva Drobna from Slovakia as your guest.

Episode 15 A week in the city

February 26, 2018 17:28 - 8 minutes - 8.06 MB

Podcast Episode 15 from The Haiku Pea at www.poetrypea.com Join us for Haiku moments in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. We will talk about the use of keywords in Haiku. Today we feature Kate Alsbury from the USA.

Episode 14 Round and round the garden

February 19, 2018 10:53 - 8 minutes - 7.63 MB

Episode 14 The Haiku Pea Podcast from poetrypea.com This week my guest haiku comes from a Japanese poet, another first thank you Mineko Takahashi, I shall read that shortly. This week's podcast includes Haiku inspired by my garden and the snow and lack of it. I suggest some Haiku publications that you can submit your Haiku too and finish with a wonderfully moving Haiku from Mineko Takahashi.

Episode 13 Trains, trams and buses

February 13, 2018 15:52 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB

The latest podcast from www.poetrypea.com- Taking about Haiku, Kigo, seasonal words and keywords. Looking at the evolution of Haiku writing. Exploring Zürich on the trains, trams and buses. Crossing continents to India

Episode 12 A walk in the countryside

February 05, 2018 12:49 - 9 minutes - 8.81 MB

The latest podcast from Poetrypea.com Walk the countryside with haiku.

Episode 11: Inspiration from the World Economic Forum

January 29, 2018 16:44 - 8 minutes - 7.41 MB

Welcome to episode 11 of the Haiku Pea podcast. www.poetrypea.com. I’m Patricia, your host. This podcast recounts my journey as I try and improve my haiku writing. And I’m sharing what I learn along the way with you. I also like to feature work from other Haiku writers and find out what interests them, what they are reading and what they can recommend to you and I. This week my Guest Haijin is Goran. You may know that I live in Switzerland, and last week we had rather an important event ...

Episode 10: Look! The snow's back

January 22, 2018 15:15 - 8 minutes - 7.96 MB

Episode 10 of the Haiku Pea podcast all about Haiku from www.poetrypea.com. It’s snowing again here in Zürich. My apologies if you can here the icy snowflakes falling on the roof of my studio. I hope the weather is better where you are. So last week I told you about the new pages on the website which recommend books and websites which I have found useful and this week, I’d like to tell you about another new feature on the website, which I will build up over time, publications, blogs etc wh...

Episode 9 A day in the life

January 15, 2018 14:40 - 7 minutes - 7.21 MB

Welcome to Episode 9 of the Haiku Pea podcast from www.poetrypea.com. We welcome submissions. I’m delighted to say that our guest Haijin today is Tim Gardiner from the UK. It was hard to choose just which of his haiku to start with, but I chose one that was relevant to the season. I’ll tell you more about him shortly, and read you his haiku which I hope you will enjoy as much as I did. If you go to our website at www.poetrypea.com, you will see that I have now started a page purely for recom...

Episode 8: A mixed bag but mostly snow...

January 08, 2018 15:55 - 9 minutes - 8.79 MB

Episode 8 the latest podcast from www.poetrypea.com A mixed bag but mostly snow.... yuk Welcome to episode 8 of the Haiku Pea, a podcast all about Haiku,. I’m Patricia, your host and I hope over time to share some of my daily haiku, submissions from you my wonderful listener and tips for writing that I glean along my journey. This is the first podcast after the Christmas break. If you remember, I was looking forward to welcoming my family home again for the holidays and maybe getting them ...

Episode 7 Home from the holidays

December 20, 2017 14:55 - 7 minutes - 7.2 MB

Episode 7 of the Haiku Pea podcast, all about Haiku, from www.poetrypea.com. I’m Patricia and I hope over time to share my daily haiku, submissions from you my wonderful listener and tips for writing that I glean along my journey. RECOMMENDED READING: Haiku in English- the first hundred years and it’s edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland and Allan Burns and it really was a great find. It has haiku by Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Alan Ginsberg and my particular favourite Seamus Heaney to name b...

Episode 6 The Indian Ocean

December 11, 2017 16:35 - 7 minutes - 6.92 MB

The Haiku Pea podcast from www.poetrypea.com Welcome to episode 6. At the end of last week’s episode you will have noticed a difference in the tone. I went on holiday, travelling from the cold early winter of the northern hemisphere to the much warmer climes of the start of summer in the southern, I travelled to the beautiful island of Mauritius. It was quite inspirational in a way that surprised me. Shall we have a listen together? Guest Haiku this week from Hannes Froehlich. Thanks Hannes.

Episode 5: A wander round the hills of Zürich

December 08, 2017 11:23 - 5 minutes - 5.19 MB

Have you ever been to Zürich? No? well have a wander around my countryside through the medium of Haiku. www.poetrypea.com

Episode 4 Mountains and Cities

November 20, 2017 14:20 - 6 minutes - 5.7 MB

Welcome to episode 4 of the Haiku Pea podcast. from www.poetrypea.com A podcast for Haiku, where I hope over time to share my daily haiku, submissions from you and tips for writing that I glean along my journey. I’m surprised and cautiously optimistic about submissions as they have started to come in already. Even so it would be great if you could spread the word that people can get a Showcase here on The Haiku Pea podcast and the website of course, www.poetrypea.com. This week I did lots...