The Haiku Pilot

The Haiku Pilot is about using the traditional three-line haiku format to create succinct poetry that departs from the form's usual focus on nature. Readers will find this book short on such conventional haiku imagery as leaping frogs and autumnal falling leaves! The form can happily go beyond the conventional and will accommodate any subject, be it whimsical or profound, fleeting or enduring, natural or manufactured. It was Carol Ann Duffy, a former Poet Laureate no less, who said, "You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart." If the subject matter of poetry is all around us (and it is), then we should be able to write it in any form we choose. The Haiku Pilot takes off with an introductory explanation about the place of syllable counting when using the haiku form to present and preserve our thoughts, succinctly and poetically. The second part of the book contains a varied selection of three-liners to demonstrate the wide use of this "dimensionally transcendental" style to create a distinctive mode of self-expression. (The Haiku Pilot contains 3,670 words plus illustrations)