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seashores
an international journal to share the
spirit of haiku
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.
Page Content:
How to submit
Submissions Criteria
General considerations and principles
Previous Issues
Editorial Team
How to order
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submissions must be unpublished and not being considered elsewhere.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.
General
considerations and principles
These have been
drafted as a general guide for your submissions.
Previous
Issues:
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 2022
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
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Prices
(including postage): 1 copy: €10 | 2 copies: €19 | 3 copies or more: €7 per
extra copy
Please note for some countries, post fees may have increased.