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Once again, we had distinct pleasure of choosing ten haiku from each of our seasonal issues to submit to the Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Awards 2025. Click here to spend a few moments with transportive haiku that guided us through the year...
Amongst myriad other features, Paul Chambers translates a haiku sequence composed by Lorca and explores the haiku's links to the deep song of flamenco in an essay first published in the Times Literary Supplement.
The Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2026 results are in!
This year, 159 poets submitted 1,028 haiku, giving us the considerable pleasure - and challenge - of narrowing the field to three prize winners and twelve Highly Commended poems.
The entries took us across a remarkable range of summer experience, from moments of playfulness and wonder to poems of memory, change and quiet reflection. Our final fifteen surprised us, moved us, made us smile and, most importantly, kept calling us back for another reading.
Thank you to everyone who entered and entrusted us with their work. There were far more poems we admired than we could possibly place.
We’re delighted to share the three winning and twelve Highly Commended haiku in our special Summer Competition edition.
Read the Summer Competition 2026 results
Welcome to The Word Emporium - our companion space, where unusual words, forgotten phrases, and precise ways of seeing are gathered from around the world. Part bookshop, part cabinet of curiosities, it celebrates language that helps us notice more keenly and describe our lives more fully.
Drawn from nature, culture, literature, science, and the turning seasons, each word opens a small doorway into wonder, reflection, and poetic attention. Whether you are a writer, reader, or simply someone who loves language, we invite you to browse the shelves and see what you discover.
