river bridge the distance of my prayer
Paul Chambers
This week’s podcast guest is Paul Chambers. Paul is an award-winning haiku poet and the Editor of the Wales Haiku Journal. To date he has published two full-length collections of poetry, and has had work appear in some of the world’s most prestigious journals and anthologies, including Modern Haiku, Presence, Frogpond, the Heron’s Nest, the Atlanta Review, and the Red Moon Anthology. A selection of his haiku has also been published in the celebrated North American poetry series, A New Resonance.
He will be be discussing this ancient and often misunderstood poetic form and offering a simple exercise to help anyone write a haiku. Here is a selection of his work:
freeing itself
of itself
the thawing stream
magnolia scent…
sunlight in the hairs
along my son’s ear
pre-dawn stars…
plumes of breath
from a cattle truck
morning coolness
the meadow holds the shape
of a deer
convalescence…
autumn revealing
the river
blue hour…
the day’s heat lingers
in lilac scent
Poetry Non-Stop 