telling the bees: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2024, edited by Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Editorial Staff

Description

The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku each year assembles the finest haiku and related forms published around the world into a single book. This volume, twenty-ninth in the most honored series in the history of English-language haiku, comprises 171 poems (haiku and senryu), 17 linked forms (haibun, renku, rengay and sequences), and 7 critical pieces on the reading, writing and study of the genre.

election over
one of us must tell
the bees
     — Randy M. Brooks (United States)

                    family album
                    the negatives
                    long thrown away
                         — Keith Evetts (United Kingdom)

          departures —
          he still doesn't know
          how to tell her
               — Krzysztof Kokot (Poland)

non-attendance . . .
the quiet boy vanishes
into hilltop mist
     — Thomas Powell (Northern Ireland)

                    Halley’s comet
                    the rare hug
                    of my father
                         — Nazarena Rampini (Italy)

          caution tape —
          the wind plays
          with boundaries
               — Nalini Shetty (India)

ISBN: 978-1-958408-62-9
Pages: 174
Size: 5.5″ x 8.25″
Binding: perfect softbound
Year Published: 2025