Plymouth Laureate of Words Show 2025 on FCR Radio

Three haiku from Beyond Emptiness read by me.


clay lamps
at the sufi tomb
wandering stars


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Nick's haiku

whale vertebrae
drifting from one god
to another 

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Jacob's haiku


before the thought 

of you and I 

the endless sea


me reading at 1:46:54

https://www.mixcloud.com/ferndale-ctg/fcr-radio-plymouth-presents-laureate-of-words-christmas-day-show-2025/


December’s Laureate of Words Show, 17th December, 2025 6pm on FC Radio, Plymouth, UK

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Audio recording/reading of my following haiku on Halloween.

deserted alley—
the gargoyle’s red eyes
darting at me

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stained glass
a spider wraps its web
around the ghost

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witching hour
the moon’s crater turns
into a werewolf


The first Laureate of Words Show on Thursday 30th, 6-8pm on fcradio.co.uk, featuring audio submissions from writers from Plymouth to Pakistan, hosted by Richard Thomas with his first guest, William Telford. Featured poets were Hifsa Ashraf, Laura Quigley, Billy Jay , Abigail Elizabeth Rowland, Almuth Lauch, Kati Mohr.

Recording of the show

My poetry reading at 1:32:31 / 28th min

https://www.mixcloud.com/ferndale-ctg/rc-thomas-fcr-radio-plymouth-presents-1800-30102025/

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Wbx1qT1nn/

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19rxnFQ6w8/

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Radmila Bogojević Award, 2025

I won 1st Prize in the 9th International Haiku Competition for the Radmila Bogojević Award 2025, where 174 talented poets from 30 countries participated. Deeply grateful to the jury, Jim Keyshen (USA), Dejan Bogojević, and Dušan Stojković for this honour!

hazy day—
untying the knots
of mom’s apron

maglovit dan –
odvezujem čvorove
na maminoj kecelji


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Fireflies’ Light, 2025

dangling leaf—
the weight of
being alone

flooded river
the way moon lost
its shadow

death anniversary—
the snow flowers bloom
in mom’s garden

Fireflies’ Light, Issue 32, October 2025

https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/fireflies-light/

Horror Senryu Journal, 2025

graveyard fog—
twisting around a bare oak
the churail’s hair


bhoot bangla—
rusty hatches echo
the jinn’s yawn


Horror Senryu Journal, September 26, 2025

https://bsky.app/profile/horrorsenryu.bsky.social

https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/

Poetry Pea Journal, 2025

alchemy of light—
each flame turns
into a firefly

Featured poem from Pea TV Video Prompt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qezbOTPTCE8

Published in Poetry Pea Podcast on the 4th of November and in Poetry Pea Journal 5:25, December 2025

https://poetrypea.com/

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midsummer day

two elephants hug 

the green bushes  


Poetry Pea Journal issue 4:25

https://poetrypea.com/journal-of-haiku-and-senryu/

https://poetrypea.com/6051-2/

Pea TV Video Prompt July 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iGBoMJn2sk

Also available on Poetry Pea Podcast, S8E34.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_oUIyyXtQ&t=355s

ESUJ-H, 2025

old snow

unfolding mom’s
bridal gown


ESUJ-H, September, 2025

https://www.esuj.gr.jp/event/5_index_detail.php