How to Haiku: A Writer's Guide to Haiku and Related Forms

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.