10 Great Books On Haiku & Haibun
Looking for books on writing haiku poetry?
Here’s a list of books that I recommend.
Six on writing and enjoying haiku.
1 Haibun A Writer’s Guide by Roberta Beary
2 Writing and Enjoying Haiku: A Hands-on Guideby Jane Reichhold
3 Haiku: A Poet’s Guide by Lee Gurga
4 The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by William J. Higginson
5 The Haiku Seasons by William J. Higginson
6 How to Haiku: A Writer’s Guide to Haiku and Related Forms by Bruce Ross
7 The Heart of Haiku by Jane Hirshfield
Three outstanding collections of haiku; two historic and one contemporary.
8 The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets translated by Sam Hamill
9 The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology by Faubion Bowers
10 The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor van den Heuvel
Plus a collection of tanka.
11 The Forest I Know by Kala Ramesh
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