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Powered by RedCircle In this special summer replay, Patricia McGuire welcomes acclaimed haiku poet Tyrone McDonald for a memorable Poetry Pea reading and conversation. Tyrone’s haiku explore family, identity, race, music, memory and the natural world with remarkable clarity and
Powered by RedCircle This week on Poetry Pea, we’re revisiting one of the highlights from our much-loved reading series. Join acclaimed poet Lorraine Padden as she reads from her beautiful collection Upwelling, sharing poems rich in observation, memory and the
Join us for a special Poetry Pea Salon recording featuring Reid Hepworth reading from her award-winning collection, The Improbability of Sea Monkeys. Reid’s book has received an HSA Merit Book Award, recognised for its evocative haiku and haibun, its honest
Powered by RedCircle In this episode of Poetry Pea, the leading English-language haiku podcast, Patricia asks, can a single line hold an entire world? In this special Poetry Pea podcast, we explore the art of the one-line haiku and senryū
Powered by RedCircle In this episode of Poetry Pea, the leading English-language haiku podcast, Patricia shares the haiku and senryū selected from the June 2026 Poetry Pea Video Prompt, beautifully curated by Lakshmi Iyer. Expect poems filled with birdsong, summer
Powered by RedCircle In this episode of Poetry Pea, the leading English-language haiku podcast, Patricia asks what makes a haiku a haiku? Is there really a difference between traditional and contemporary haiku, or have we complicated something that was once
Powered by RedCircle In this episode of the Poetry Pea Podcast, Patricia McGuire introduces the remarkable poetry of Anne McKay, an award-winning Canadian poet whose lyrical haiku and haiku-inspired poetry deserve to be much better known. She explores a selection
Powered by RedCircle Rivers have always carried stories. In this episode of the Poetry Pea Podcast, we follow their winding course through a carefully curated collection of contemporary haiku and senryū, alongside classic poems that continue to inspire writers today.
Powered by RedCircle In the final episode of this three-part series on noun poetry, Patricia reads a wonderful collection of listener poems, inspired by the nouns. This episode examines how carefully chosen images can evoke emotion without relying on explanation
Powered by RedCircle Can a haiku be lyrical without relying on verbs? Can a handful of carefully chosen nouns carry all the emotional weight a poem needs? In this second episode exploring the poetry of nouns, Patricia examines how concrete
