Haiku Whispers
The Haiku Season Collection - Spring
Buying Information
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Available in Paperback and Kindle.
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Publisher - Lost Tower Publications
Published: June 2016
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ISBN: 978-1534731714
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Haiku Yellow
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'Haiku Yellow is the beauty, majesty, and mystery of spring captured in haiku.'
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Haiku Yellow is the first part in a series of haiku collections exploring the four different seasons and their effect on the beautiful Devonian countryside. This book is a celebration of spring!
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Haiku Yellow is a breathtaking collection of stunning images captured and written in haiku verse from the contemporary English poet P.J. Reed.
This collection explores the excitement and drama as the yellow of springtime bursts through the bleakness of winter throughout the Devon countryside in a series of dramatic moments captured forever in her fresh, crisp verse.
The world in springtime is a joyful place full of possibilities and hope.
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P.J. Reed has looked into the beauty of a world reborn and clothed in yellow springtime glory. This study has resulted in a series of outstanding word pictures, thoughts, and emotions written in haiku by P.J. Reed.
'Colourful pictures painted in words... Exquisite...' Peter, Devon.
'This was so sweet and made me excited for the spring thaw :) I have recently really began to love haiku! Reed’s poems have a really nice flow while being descriptive. I enjoyed the notes about writing haiku at the end, and laughed at this except, “I have often been asked by the few passersby what I was doing, as I stood and memorized the mechanics of a droplet of water falling from a leaf. In these occasions it is always better to reply that you are writing haiku and not in fact watching a leaf.” J.
'Beautiful book with a cover almost as fantastic as the words itself. Really brings the essence of the seasons to the pages.
Highly recommend *****,' by Sapphire
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'The happy-looking cover of this book caught my eye and I was gratified to find the contents just as pleasing. A lovely collection of bite-sized beauty and wisdom. Would make a lovely gift for any poetry lover!' C.C.
'I love to read poetry, however it's rare that I come across a book full of beautiful haiku. I also love the idea of using each day in Spring, you could read each one on the day for inspiration. The April and May haiku really stood out to me, most of my favorites were in those two months. I wish there were illustrations to go with some of them, they really conjure up beautiful visuals. I can't wait to read all of the other seasons.' P
'This is a lovely little book. The haiku are short (of course) and sweet, with an amazing depth - you need to read and re-read them and, having done that, read them all yet again. They conjure up such vivid images of nature and they bring a smile to your face as you relate to those images - “oh, yes”, you say, “that was how I remember it” and/or “that was my experience, too”.
I’m going to go back to the start of the book and thoroughly enjoy them all again.' A.
"Haiku Yellow" is the first of P.J. Reed's work I have read and I enjoyed it. I love poetry both reading and writing it. I struggle with restrictive forms of poetry , but this book has inspired me to try to do it more often.
When it comes to rigid forms of poetry you must choose your words wisely, at this Reed excels. She paints such vivid pictures of spring moments. It made me feel like I was experiencing Spring instead of the Autumn I am actually actually living . My favorite poems of the collection are "18th April", "3 May", "17 May", and "21 June". Aside from the Poetry itself I greatly appreciate the "forward", "how to write haiku", "a brief history of haiku" sections, and the "glossary". I learned a lot from this book and I recommend picking it up yourself. I'm excited to read more of Reed's Haiku collections. I wonder what the winter collection will be like.