Stop Press!

Have you had your haiku published here at Pure Haiku?

Do you have a poetry book / chapbook / collection authored entirely by yourself that has already been published or is due to be published between 1st December 2023 and 1st December 2024?

Is your poetry book / chapbook / collection available as an e-book in both the US and the UK and other countries?

Would you like me to mention your poetry book on this site?

If your answers are YES to ALL of the above questions, contact me immediately at purehaiku@gmail.com

In your email, please state:-

• your full name and when you were last published here at Pure Haiku
• your blog OR social media address (one only)
• the title of your poetry book you wish me to mention here
• one purchase link (full address please, no abbreviations or bitlys – my computer doesn’t like them)
• the date of publication

I will reply to your email within a couple of weeks, depending on my deadlines and writing schedule. Please note that I usually finalise scheduled posts the month before they’re due to appear. If you wish to be mentioned in a specific month for your STOP PRESS announcement, please be sure to email me with the relevant information (see above) BEFORE the 25th of the preceding month. (Eg if you want to be mentioned in my May post, please tell me about your poetry book before 25th April).

I will schedule Stop Press posts to appear mid-month between May and September, and also in November, as and when I have enough interest.

Please don’t: –

• Send me any attachments (your email will automatically go into my Junk folder)
• Send me your poetry MS asking me to critique/review it (I haven’t got time and I only review poetry books I’ve purchased myself)
• Send me any extra information (I haven’t got time to read it)
• Send me information about someone else’s book
• Send me information about anthologies you’ve been published in

This offer of promotion is free of charge and I can’t promise any extra sales from it. Being a self-published author myself, I know how hard it is to get the word out there to the right people. This is my way of saying thank you to those of you who contribute to this site.

Looking forward to hearing from you if you meet the requirements at the top of the page!

Freya Pickard, Curator of Pure Haiku

Sharing Our Horizon

Today’s review is about Sharing Our Horizon by Xenia Tran.

Xenia Tran is an artistic photographer and amazing poet; her haiku in particular are incredible! Pure Haiku published one of her haiku on this site back in September 2016!

Xenia was born in The Netherlands and lives with her husband and adopted whippet Misty in the Scottish Highlands. She has two blogs which can be found at Whippet Wisdom and Tranature.

Sharing Our Horizon is a beautiful collection of expertly written haiku from the point of view of her previous two adopted whippets; Eivor and Pearl.

driftwood
when spirit leaves the trees
a loving gift

Xenia’s haiku, haiban, tanka and other forms are reflected in the exquisite photographs she includes with each offering.

lagoon holds
a painting from the sky
in her arms

I love the way she takes you through a year in the Highlands, from hopeful spring, through the brief warmth of summer into the slow decay of autumn and into the bitter, frigid beauty of the fallow months.

bees dazzle
around the purple heather
autumn wind

Her photographs, more often than not, feature one or both of her whippets, but sometimes they simply capture the raw, visceral beauty of Scotland.

winter rings
her wings of ice and snow
around the sun

If you haven’t yet bought this collection, I urge you to do so. You won’t be disappointed!

I’m really sorry but I am unable to accept review requests. I have dozens of books (both prose and poetry) waiting to be read. I also prefer to BUY poetry books so that when I review them on Amazon, my review is Verified.

Farewell to the forest …

We shake off the last of the snow, brush the twigs from our shoulders and push our way through the edgewood to the border of the real world once more.

Thank you for joining us on our journey through the realm of the Three Trees. Thank you to Elisa Ang for painting such an amazing, inspirational picture. Thank you to everyone who took part. And thank you to all those who liked, commented and shared our posts.

Pure Haiku will open again to submissions on a new theme on 1st October 2024. To be notified, please sign up to receive emails from this site.

Next month I will resume posting reviews on collections of poetry and will also let you know about Pure Haiku contributors’ new releases of poetry as and when I am informed about them! Check out this post to find out how to get a mention! If you have had or will be having a chapbook or poetry collection published between 1st November 2023 and 1st November 2024 that is all your own work and you are or have been a Pure Haiku contributor, you are eligible.

See you all again soon!

Much love

Freya xxx

Featured Haiku Writer – Curator’s Choice 5

old when we are born
living when we are long dead
man was made by wood

© Ricky Kay 2024

 In 2021 I decided to just go for it, so I’ve been posting every day since August of that year; see more at WritingMeUp. (England)

This haiku is part of our THREE TREES series.

Featured Haiku Writer – Curator’s Choice 4

snow silvered branches
limned by the hand of nature
the supreme artist

© Ricky Kay 2024

If you want to say something about my work, send me a comment. I’m happy to talk. By which I mean write, of course; see more at WritingMeUp. (England)

This haiku is part of our THREE TREES series.