English Language Haiku Master John Stevenson ✍️ (Interview) [983]

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Practise your listening in English with a fascinating conversation with a writer of haiku poetry in English. John Stevenson is one of the world's leading English language haiku poets, and in this episode I had the pleasure of talking to him for an hour. John taught me more about haiku and senryu poetry, revealed how he first became interested in haiku, and then was willing to discuss various haiku poems he has written over the years, giving details of what real events inspired them, what they mean and more about his process of writing haiku in English. I hope this episode is fascinating and inspiring. Keep listening because it becomes more and more revealing as it continues. John was a pleasure to talk to and I think this is the perfect conclusion to the trilogy of episodes I have done on this subject on the podcast recently.

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"My Red" by John Stevenson available from Brooks Books 👉 https://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/Stevenson-MyRed.html

The Heron's Nest haiku website 👉 https://www.theheronsnest.com/March2026/index.html

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0:28.7	Dot UK.
0:35.8	Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast.
0:38.8	How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine.
0:41.3	How nice it is to be talking to you again on this podcast today.
0:44.9	And I've got a lovely episode lined up for you.
0:47.6	This one was a kind of surprising episode that this happened.
0:52.7	I didn't expect this episode to happen, but it for me is a
0:57.3	kind of serendipitous moment of podcast magic that this happened. So let me just give you a little
1:04.0	bit of background, a brief introduction, and then we'll get straight into it, okay? So this year,
1:10.2	you've probably noticed I did a couple of
1:12.4	episodes about haiku in English. They were called haiku in English and haiku in English too.
1:18.6	And in those episodes, I talked about the form of poetry known as haiku. I talked about its Japanese
1:24.7	roots. I explained what a haiku is, the sort of conventions of this form of poetry.
1:33.1	Talked about more modern English language haiku and I read out various haiku poems, including some of the old traditional Japanese stuff translated into English and then more modern
1:45.7	English language haiku, including quite a lot of work by celebrated haiku author John Stevenson.
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