Sleeping Ears is a sequence of fifty previously unpublished haiku by Haruki Matsuda. Through quiet observation of the shapes and textures of familiar things, it captures fleeting shifts in perception and depth within everyday life.

Sea anemones close toward a single point.

Tooku Kiku is Mari Takaku's fifty-haiku sequence that received the 13th Tatsuko Hoshino Newcomer Award. The poet, who is not affiliated with a haiku school, began writing after encounters with an introductory book and a haiku gathering, and describes a wish to keep making poems that are interesting to her.

A fifty-haiku award-winning sequence by a poet who began writing outside a haiku school.