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Author: John Hawkhead

John Hawkhead is a writer from the South West of England who, in 2021, won the Porad Haiku Contest, the Setouchi-Matsuyama haiku Grand Prix and was a Finalist in the Trailblazer contest.

sea cave echoes of desert wind

Posted on 15 June 202611 May 2026Author John HawkheadCategories Issue 26.11 Comment on

contrails our slow disintegration

Posted on 3 November 202527 October 2025Author John HawkheadCategories Issue 25.24 Comments on

star gazing
what we wished for
light years ago

 

Posted on 1 April 202224 March 2022Author John HawkheadCategories Issue 22.111 Comments on

snowed in
deep white drifts
quilt the night

 

Posted on 5 February 201922 January 2019Author John HawkheadCategories Issue 18.26 Comments on

lighting cigarettes
from each other’s cigarettes
the slow setting sun

Posted on 2 June 201512 September 2025Author John HawkheadCategories Issue 15.17 Comments on

midnight thunderstorm
her face in the lightning flash
suddenly closer

Posted on 5 December 201417 November 2014Author John HawkheadCategories Issue 14.24 Comments on

the heavy worm
twisting between my fingers
sunlight on the hook

 

Posted on 18 October 201218 October 2012Author John HawkheadCategories Issue 12.19 Comments on
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