Late-Blooming Cherries : Haiku Poetry from India

By Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih| Rimi Nath

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About the book

Delicately weaving through life’s tapestry of love and loneliness, joy and grief, the verses in this long-awaited collection brilliantly showcase the exquisiteness of the haiku and senryu, allowing readers to embrace the beauty of each poetic moment. Exploring ‘the pragmatic and the metaphysical with humour, heartbreak, profound insight and a serious appreciation of language chosen for its precision and suggestiveness’, these poems traverse the whole gamut of human experience.

Compiled and edited by accomplished haiku writers Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Rimi Nath, Late-Blooming Cherries features contributions from some of the most prominent haiku artists in India. True, in essence, to the meaning of ‘haiku’, or ‘pleasure verse’, and much like the late-blooming cherries of Shillong, this book–which invites readers to reflect on life, nature and human bonds–is meant to be savoured slowly.

Pages: 236

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He is the author of Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends
(2007), The Yearning of Seeds (2011), Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu (2015), Funeral Nights (2021) and the co-editor of Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from Northeast India (2009). His haiku have appeared in journals such as Wales Haiku Journal, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Simply Haiku, World Haiku Review, Cattails, Presence, The Heron’s Nest, Asahi Haikuist Network, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Muse India, Kavya Bharati, The Yearning of Seeds, Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. His awards include the first North-East Poetry Award (Tripura, 2004),

Rimi Nath

Rimi Nath teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. She is the author of Kushiara and Other Poems (2021). Her poems and scholarly articles have appeared in several national and international publications. Her haiku have appeared in journals such as Wales
Haiku Journal, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, World Haiku Review, Asahi Haikuist, Under the Basho and Haiku Canada Review. She lives in Shillong and Guwahati.