10 Great Books On Haiku & Haibun

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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
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

Listen to my conversation with Natalie Goldberg here.

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