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seashores
an international journal to share the
spirit of haiku
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revue internationale pour partager l’esprit du haiku
(page française)
The objective of seashores is to share haiku from all over the
world and explore how the way and the spirit of haiku, with its power to
connect us to nature and our world can play a role in poetry and our lives in
general.
Issue 1
October 2018
Issue 2
April 2019
Issue 3
November 2019
Issue 4
April 2020
Issue 5
November 2020
Issue 6
April 2021
Issue 7
November 2021
Issue 8
April 2021
Issue 9
November 2022
Issue 10
April 2023
Issue 11
November 2023
Issue 12
April 2024
Issue 13 SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE SAIJIKI
November 2024
How
to submit:
You are all welcome to submit a maximum of
eight (8) haiku/senryu, in any combination. Essays or articles on haiku are
also welcome (app. 800 words max). All copyrights to remain with the author.
Send all submissions (and any request of information) to haikuspirit@haikuspirit.org
and/or seashoreshaiku@gmail.com. Please enter Submissions for Seashores in the email subject. Family name, first
name as well as country must be included in the email body text with the
entries (please no attachment!).
Annual deadlines are 31 January for the April
issue and 31 July for the November issue.
We regret to advise you that no free copies of
this printed journal will be offered. Only contributors whose essay/article is
selected to be published will receive a free copy.
Submissions
Criteria and Guidelines:
All
submissions must be unpublished and not being considered elsewhere. All
submissions must be in English. If originally in another language, translation
must be provided with the original entry (if the author is not the translator,
please indicate the details of the translator and his/her consent to
publication).
Haiku (and senryu) need to reflect the rules and
guidelines that are generally accepted in the global haiku community.
Basically, haiku in three distinct lines with good rhythm are favoured and may
include a season word (kigo) or a key word, a cut (kireji, by way of style, space or the use of punctuation or other)
but poems of 1, 2 or 4 lines with haiku essence and spirit will also be
considered. Ultimately, submissions will be judged on quality and originality.
Editorial
team:
Paul Chambers (website)
is an award-winning haiku poet and editor of the Wales Haiku Journal. To date
he has published two full-length collections of haiku, and has had over 200
poems appear in such journals and anthologies as Modern Haiku, Presence,
Frogpond, Bottlerockets, and Red Moon. Paul's has contributed creative and
critical material to The Times Literary Supplement, the BBC, NHK World, the
Arts Council of Wales and the Wales Arts Review, as well as national Japanese
newspapers, the Mainichi and the Asahi Shimbun. His first full-length
collection, This Single Thread, was published by Alba in October 2015, and was
shortlisted for the Haiku Foundation Distinguished Book Award. His second
collection, Latitudes,
Gilles Fabre is a French national who lives in Ireland. His haiku have
won awards and been published in various journals and mainly anthologies in
Ireland, Great Britain, Australia, India, the USA and Canada in English, and
France and Canada in French. He has also been published in Japanese and
Portuguese. His first collection of haiku Because
of a Seagull was published by The Fishing Cat Press. For Gilles, the way
and practice of haiku, bringing us closer, and sometimes back, to the source,
with its power to connect us to Nature and reality has a role to play in poetry
and life in general: haiku can help us to have a better relation to the world
we need to respect and protect better. His second collection, along the way,
with haiku from 35 countries, a search for the spirit of the world, was
published in February 2020.
David Burleigh is a haiku poet and translator, living in Japan. David is
an Advisor for Kō haiku magazine in Nagoya, a member of the Executive
Committee of the Haiku International Association and was an Assistant Editor
for Modern Haiku (USA), 2006-13.
How to order:
To
order seashores, payment may be made with PayPal. You can also contact us for
cash payment. Unfortunately, due to banking commissions for international
transfers, we cannot accept payment by electronic transfer.
If you’d like to order, please email us
with the following information: (a) First name and family name; (b) Full postal
address (not required if you have already provided it); and (c) Number of
copies required (and issue or issues) and advise if you want to pay with PayPal
and your email/PayPal account (if different) or by cash payment. You will then
receive a PayPal invoice, or the instructions for cash payment. Please wait to
receive our invoice: do not sent PayPal payment to seashores.
Prices
(including postage): 1 copy: €10 | 2 copies: €18 | 3 copies or more: €6 per
extra copy