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Haiku & Tanka Resources

Shadow Poetry has assembled a small collection of books perfect for researching and learning how to write haiku and tanka as well as a fantastic book review of Haiku: A Poet's Guide by Lee Gurga (seen below). We have set up each publication to accommodate our Amazon shoppers. Click here to read the review of Haiku: A Poet's Guide.

Haiku & Tanka Resources:

Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac

  Haiku World: An International 
  Poetry Almanac
  by William J. Higginson 
  Amazon Price:  Used copies only
  ISBN 4770020902
  Paperback, 352 pages 
  Kodansha International, (Nov. 1996) 
  - Amazon

  Haiku: A Poet's Guide
  by Lee Gurga 
  Amazon Price:  $20.00
  ISBN 0974189405 
  Paperback, 170 pages 
  Modern Haiku Press; (May 2003)
  - Amazon

  Haiku Handbook: How to Write,
  Share, and Teach Haiku
  by William J. Higginson
  Amazon Price:  $11.20
  ISBN 4770014309
  Paperback Reissue edition, 331 pages
  Kodansha International, (March 1992)
  - Amazon

Haiku Handbook : How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku

  Writing and Enjoying Haiku: 
  A Hands on Guide
  by Jane Reichhold 
  Amazon Price:  $10.50
  ISBN 4770028865
  Paperback,  144 pages (Feb. 2003) 
  Kodansha International 
  - Amazon

  An Introduction to Haiku: 
  An Anthology of Poems and Poets 
  from Basho to Shiki
  by Harold Gould Henderson 
  Amazon Price:  $15.00
  ISBN 0385093764 
  Paperback, 192 pages (Jan. 1983)
  Anchor
  - Amazon

  The Haiku Anthology
  by Cor Van Den Heuvel 
  Amazon Price:  $11.17
  ISBN 0393321185
  Paperback, 432 pages, (Nov. 2000)
  W.W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition 
  - Amazon

  Essential Haiku Volume 20
  (Essential Poets)
  by Hass 
  Amazon Price: $11.20
  ISBN 0880013516
  Paperback,  352 pages (Oct. 1995)
  Ecco
  - Amazon

Essential Haiku Volume 20 (Essential Poets)

  The Haiku Seasons: 
  Poetry of the Natural World
  by William J. Higginson 
  Amazon Price:  $11.20
  ISBN 4770016298 
  Paperback, 171 pages (Dec. 1996)
  Kodansha International
  - Amazon

The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World

  Haiku: Asian Arts and Crafts 
  for Creative Kids
  by Patricia Donegan 
  Amazon Price:  $9.95
  ISBN 0804835012 
  Hardcover, 64 pages 
  Tuttle Publishing, (January 2004)
  - Amazon

  Modern Japanese Tanka
  by Makoto Ueda 
  Amazon Price:  $22.00
  ISBN 0231104332
  Paperback, 288 pages, (April 1996)
  Columbia University Press
  - Amazon

  Songs from a Bamboo Village: 
  Selected Tanka from Takenosato Uta
  by Shiki Masaoka 
  Amazon Price:  Used copies only
  ISBN 0804820856
  Paperback, 488 pages 
  Tuttle Publishing, (May 1998) 
  - Amazon

Songs from a Bamboo Village: Selected Tanka from Takenosato Uta

  A Long Rainy Season: 
  Haiku and Tanka (Contemporary 
  Japanese Women's Poetry, Vol 1)
  by Lowitz, Aoyama, Tomioka...
  Amazon Price:  $14.95
  ISBN 1880656159
  Paperback, 200 pages 
  Stone Bridge Press, (June 1994) 
  - Amazon