Haiku and haibun of Renée Owen

Highlights of Poetry. Index of poetry. How to Write Poetry. Books read. Yuki Teikei Haiku Society: Join. GEPPO magazine. Annual anthologies. The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Retreat at Asilomar: 2007. 2008 (a haibun). 2010. Toward an Aesthetic for English-Language Haiku by Lee Gurga. 2004 Pescadero Haiku Weekend Workshop (including exercises) with Christopher Herold. How to write specific forms: Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Renku. Tanka. Ballade. Concrete. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Prose poem. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Skaldic verse. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle. Poets: Bashō. Beverly Acuff Momoi. Buson. Claire Gallagher. Hosai Ozaki. J. Zimmerman. J. Zimmerman (haibun). J. Zimmerman (haiku). J. Zimmerman (tanka). Jane Hirshfield. Kay Ryan. Kay Ryan's style. Kay Ryan The Best Of It: New and Selected Poems. Ki no Tsurayuki. Marianna Monaco. Ouzel (James Arnold). Patricia Donegan. Patricia J. Machmiller. Renée Owen. Shiki. Check How to Learn Japanese.

Renée Owen
Alone on a Wild Coast.

Alone on a Wild Coast

Alone on a Wild Coast by Renée Owen. From the back cover: "I have long been a fan of Renée Owen's work, some of the most beautiful being written today. She manages to be both classical and modern at the same time, using fresh images and engaging, human-oriented themes. It's wonderful to have a full-length collection of her haiku, sequences, and haibun." Charles Trumbull Editor emeritus, Modern Haiku Available from the author, at reneeowen at sbcglobal dot net (for $14 + $2 shipping) or directly from the UK publisher at www.snapshotpress.co.uk/books/alone_on_a_wild_coast.htm

This collection includes not only many haiku but a dozen haibun spaced in triples through the book and also a pair of six-haiku series at the heart of the book.

Anyone who has paid attention to haibun in recent years will recognize poems that are already favorites, including:

• "Endless Night" [p.20]
• "One Last Wish" [p.30]
• "Fields of Cotton" [p.51]
• "Solo Retreat" [p.62]

Most of the haiku are in the familiar three-line format, but several of the initial haiku use the increasingly popular one-line form:

alone on a wild coast twilight takes me

floating in mono lake salt sea sky

A very welcome collection, to be savored and reread.

Links and Books.

Links and Books.

• Best American Poetry series.
• Best Poems by the Best Poets - Some Lists of Winners.
• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of Britain
• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.
• Other Books of Poetry Form.

Related pages: Poetry index. How to Write Poetry. How to write specific forms: Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka.

Books of Poetry Form.

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