This haiku book provides an invaluable guide to developing your own haiku-writing skills, with clear explanations, brilliant examples, and innovative writing exercises.


It also offers an introduction to related Japanese poetic forms including:

• Senryu-commentaries on human nature that are often humorous or ironic


• Haibun-short, autobiographical narratives accompanied by a haiku


• Tanka-imaginative poems full of highly personal, emotional expressions


• Haiga-drawings accompanied by commentary in haiku form


• Renga-a collaborative form featuring linked sequences of poetry

How to Haiku is a wonderful resource for anyone who wants to try their hand at this precise and poetic form of expression.