An online journal of international haiku. Published in partnership with WalesArtReview. Editor Joe Woodhouse. Co-Editor C.X. Turner @loverpoetic.bsky.social
Wales Haiku Journal
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As we continue to read entries for this year's Summer Competition, we're revisiting some of the poems recognised in last year's awards.
firefly glow –
another memory
I can't hold onto
- Nada Mutlaq
Our Summer Competition 2026 remains open until 31 July:
www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...
Wales Haiku Journal
A handful of syllables that continue unfolding inside the mind.
Today’s Word Emporium piece looks at ten lines - from Heraclitus to Rilke - that keep speaking long after the page is closed.
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On the peculiar power of compressed language, and why certain lines unspool over time.
Wherever summer finds you, we'd love to read your work.
Full details and entry information:
www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...
Some poems make us stop. Some make us smile. Occasionally, they do both.
Here's one of those from the Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2025 - one of last year's highly commended poems.
how did I get here?
a blueberry rolls down
the bus aisle
- D W Brydon
#haiku #poetry
A haiku from our Spring Edition that encapsulates the positivity, and possibility, of the season. Many thanks to @farahauthor.bsky.social for these words.
www.waleshaikujournal.com/spring26
Today, our companion space, The Word Emporium, shares three words for late spring.
Lucent. Verdurous. Mellifluous.
Three words paired with three photographs: a quiet exploration of settled light, deepening green, and the soft hum of life in motion.
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As our Summer submissions draw to a close, here’s a little linguistic diversion from our sister publication, The Word Emporium.
A clock ticks. Rain begins against the window. A glass meets another in celebration.
The sounds are the same everywhere. Language teaches us to hear them differently.
Wales Haiku Journal
Wales Haiku Journal
• First Prize: £150 + publication + a 12-month pass to the Word Emporium Mezzanine
• Twelve commended poets will also be featured in a special Summer Competition Edition
• Traditional, experimental, monoku, and senryu all welcome
• Deadline: 31st July 2026
The world makes the same noises everywhere.
Language teaches us to hear them differently.
Today at the Word Emporium:
When a Sound Crosses a Border
A clock. A frog. A sneeze. Ten everyday sounds, heard through different languages.
#words #language #vocabulary
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The Word Emporium
The world makes the same noises everywhere. Language teaches us to hear them differently.
