New work is added to the under 16s spot on a rolling basis—read it here!
ps Don’t forget to send in your submissions for the summer issue of hedgerow (#128).
all best,
Caroline Skanne
(Editor)
hedgerow #127 (the spring issue) is finally out! Thanks to contributors & readers alike. I look forward to reading your work for the upcoming summer issue (submissions accepted on a rolling basis).
The spring issue can be purchased at the link below, or from Amazon.
kindly,
Caroline Skanne
editor
hedgerow #126 (the winter issue) is out! Thanks to contributors & readers alike. I look forward to reading your submissions for the spring issue (submissions accepted on a rolling basis).
The autumn issue can be purchased at the link below, or from Amazon.
hedgerow #126, the winter print issue, 2019
kindly,
Caroline Skanne
editor
hedgerow #123, the first issue of the year, is finally out! It was a great joy working on this issue. Thanks to contributors & readers alike. I look forward to reading your submissions for the summer edition (deadline end of July).
yes, hedgerow is still on spring break… but in the meantime, you can download & enjoy the first e-book published by wildflower poetry press for free! see details below.
happy spring everyone!
.
‘Ancient Bloodlines’ by Simon Hanson & Ron C. Moss
a collection of 11 Australian collaborative rengay paired with artwork by Ron C. Moss. Each rengay is presented in the newly developed ‘Mossy Ripple Effect’ to optimise the reading experience.
to enjoy, simply click on the link below!
‘Ancient Bloodlines’ is offered as a free download for personal use only, all material copyrighted. while the download of this e-book is free, a link to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) has been added below, where you can make a donation, at your own wish.
http://www.australianwildlife.org/support-awc/donate.aspx
* the ‘Mossy Ripple Effect’ was developed by Ron C. Moss
welcome to the latest issue of hedgerow. as always grateful to readers & contributors alike. to enjoy #93 simply click on the pdf link below…
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with love & kindness,
caroline skanne
founding editor
welcome everyone & thanks for being here! to enjoy this week’s issue, simply click on the pdf link below…
with love & kindness,
caroline skanne
founding editor
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welcome to this week’s issue of hedgerow. as always, grateful to readers & contributors alike! please click on the pdf link below to enjoy #89…
with love & kindness,
caroline skanne
founding editor
welcome to #78 of hedgerow. this week features artwork by Paula Dawn Lietz. as always, grateful to contributors & readers alike…enjoy!
with love & kindness,
caroline skanne
founding editor
unread books
are piling up
beside the bed
dunnocks carry twigs
nesting under the hedge
.
making supper
my heart sitting
on that hill
writing poems
above Quaker bones
.
I am trying
to learn to live with pain
the way I live with slugs
not running over them
but taking another path
After decades of living in the States and Canada, Joy McCall now lives in her birthplace of Norwich, England, growing older but not much wiser.
dawn chorus
call
and response
and response
and response
Patti Niehoff (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) lives in southwestern Ohio with her husband and cats.
blackbird
choosing
which apple
to peck
Christina Martin has been writing poetry since as far back as she can remember. She lives in West Wales in the UK where she takes much of her inspiration from the sea and her natural surroundings. She also paints.
fairy princess
a missing tooth smile
as bright as her tiara
.
tabernacle lamp
the warm red glow
of sunset
Simon Hanson lives in Queensland Australia, grateful for another day . . .
wind chimes-
the rocking chair
starts without me
Steve Smolak lives in Herrin, IL, Usa. He reads, writes, and studies haiku daily.
chiffon strap
the immodesty
of moonlight
.
gas flare
the midnight sea
awash in light
Dave Read is a Canadian poet. His work can be found on his blog, davereadpoetry.blogspot.ca.
paper boats
sailing through a puddle
in the refugee camp
Chen-ou Liu is currently the editor and translator of NeverEnding Story, http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/, and the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition)
the art is this issue was brought to you by Paula Dawn Lietz —
Paula Dawn Lietz is as well a multi-genre artist and photographer specializing in digital media. Lietz has garnered an impressive range of credits working with various publishers and authors, and revels in the creative energy generated within the artistic and literary community…
more at —
http://www.pdlietzphotography.com
welcome to #71 of hedgerow. thanks everyone for making this a beautiful place. the art in this issue was brought to you by Anita Virgil (please find her bio at the end of this issue). enjoy!
with love & kindness,
caroline skanne
founding editor
a heated debate
each calls the other
the other
Ian Willey is a sociolinguist and English teacher from Ohio now living in rural Japan with his wife and three children. He believes that senryu have great potential not only as an art form but also for political and cultural satire, and hopes to see their popularity spread.
haiku: anita virgil
photo: chad gurchinoff
my train of thought
interrupted by the news –
two ideologies
coming down the track
in opposite directions
.
seeking shelter
in a cold, bare room
he curls up
on the wooden floor –
blue moon in the window
.
he wants to know
what’s on my bucket list –
suddenly
this desire to eat an apple
from the inside out
Susan Constable lives on the west coast of Canada, where she’s been writing mainly haiku and tanka for the past ten years. She is currently the tanka editor for the online journal, A Hundred Gourds.
haiku & art: anita virgil
haiku first published in roadrunner issue V3
her tiger lilies
blooming
in the back garden …
she shifts a card
in her game of solitaire
Anne Curran is a Japanese verse forms poet who lives in Hamilton with her cat Misty. She loves to write and to be happy doing creative things. She has lived many lives but thinks that to be a small time poet is her most magical pastime.
haiku: anita virgil
photo: jennifer v. gurchinoff
haiku first published in world haiku review;
reprinted as a haiga for haigaonline
Rumours of War
Down the back of my throat trickle sorrows.
They are not mine: martyr-dust –
pollen in the arms of the wind.
In sleep I burn on sun like a golden plate;
men have dead-branch arms; minds burst
showering red confetti.
Anchor-like, axe blade reflects the waves;
orange beacons and grey waves,
– the blood of the sea.
Ruth Asch is a poet by night, mother of four and sometimes teacher by day. She published a book of poems Reflections in 2009 (St Austin Press, available at amazon). She loves to translate foreign language poems into real poetry in English and hopes to bring out another book of her own in the not-too-distant future. Originally from London (UK) she is now living and working in Spain.
tanka first appeared in MET v2n1, 2007.
tobacco stained
and scarred —
why would you let
these calloused hands
caress you
.
as if I wasn’t
here at all
the cold
spring wind
cuts through me
.
moaning the blues —
in time
each blossom must fall
Paul Smith is a poet from Worcester in the UK. Alongside poetry Paul enjoys Japanese style ink painting, building cigar box guitars and playing old time blues.
ekphrastic poem: anita virgil
photo: chad gurchinoff
the art in this issue was brought to you by Anita Virgil —
Anita Virgil, USA, was introduced to haiku by William J. Higginson in 1969 and was a member of the original three-person Committee on Definitions for H.S.A. with Harold G. Henderson. President H.S.A.1973. Several collections have been published since 1974. Two new ones appeared in October 2015 and the latest, in February 2016. Essays, haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, haiga, many podcasts for Haiku Chronicles and interviews of her are online.
