Haiku

I am delighted to have haiku published or forthcoming in these places:

  • Frogpond 49.1 (2026), ‘hospital window
  • 15th Polish International Haiku Competition 2025, Commended ‘small worries
  • English Speaking Union of Japan (November, 2025), ‘cold moon
  • Snowfall and Starlight: A Christmas Haiku Anthology (December 2025), ‘our own white Christmas’, ‘infusion centre’, ‘fixing the Christmas’
  • Enchanted Garden, Issue 12: At the Sky Gates, July 2025: ‘orion nebula
  • Haiku Commentary featured ‘rush hour’ from Cafe Haiku in this discussion (June 2026).
  • Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar (featured haiku for June 2026) ‘yellow buckthorn
  • Presence (3rd Place, 2024 Martin Lucas Haiku Award), ‘still on its needles
  • Sixth Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest 2025 (Commendation): ‘diagnosis
  • Cafe Haiku, Cityscapes Series (4 November 2024), ‘just behind‘, ‘sharing the aurora‘, ‘a garden‘, ‘rush hour
  • #FemkuMag (Judge’s Choice: Vandana Parashar, Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest), Issue 36 (Summer 2024) / Nominated for the 2024 Touchstone Award for an Individual Poem ‘p r e – d a w n
  • Mayfly (Summer 2024, print): ‘rainy day snails’
  • Petrichor 25: Pebbles 4 (sci fi), Summer 2024: ‘first contact‘ and ‘Venetian love nest
  • English Speaking Union of Japan (July, 2024), ‘walk to school‘ (swan)
  • Shadow Pond, Issue 3 (16 June 2024) ‘day-peep
  • Enchanted Garden, Issue 8: Dreams Keeper, June 2024: ‘standing in the garden
  • 第 28 回「草枕」国際俳句大会 / The 28th International Kusamakura Haiku Competition 2023, (入 選 Nyusen/Third Prize): ‘first day of spring
  • The Mainichi (13 August 2022), ‘night shift
  • IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award 2017 (Runner up) ‘yellow sunrise
  • Forthcoming in a retrospective anthology of the European Kukai (2013-2023): haiku originally published in European Kukai 13 (Spring 2016) ‘last push
  • Honorable Mention, 19th Mainichi Haiku Contest, International Section (2016)
  • cattails 143 (September 2014), ‘marigolds
  • 第6回山寺芭蕉記念館英語俳句大会 / 6th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, annual selection (July 2014): ‘cold winter wind‘, ‘salty ocean breeze
  • The Mainichi (Haiku, July 26, 2014; 2014 Annual Selection)