by M. W. Wollacott | Jun 23, 2024 | Books, Haiku, Poetry
108 Breaths: A foreigner’s experience of Japan through haiku “A haiku is but one breath. It is the Kodak moment of modern poetry and it proves all Picasso needed to write a picture was 17 syllables.” In 2004, Mark Wollacott moved to Japan and discovered this...
by M. W. Wollacott | Aug 1, 2022 | Haiku, Life in Japan, Poetry
I first learned about haiku in 2005. It happened on one of my regular trips to the north of Osaka city to check out the foreign books and magazines in Kinokuniya. Most of the magazines were super over priced, but I happened upon a copy of The Kyoto Journal. In it was...
