ABOUT

Paul Chambers is an award-winning haiku poet, and was the founding editor of the Wales Haiku Journal. To date he has published three full-length collections of poetry, and has had work appear regularly in the most celebrated English-language haiku journals and anthologies, including Modern Haiku, Presence, Frogpond, Acorn, the Heron's Nest, and the Red Moon Anthology. A selection of his haiku has also been published in the celebrated North American poetry series, A New Resonance.

Paul has contributed creative and critical material to the Times Literary Supplement, The Conversation, NHK World, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Review, Caught by the River, and the national Japanese newspapers, the Mainichi and the Asahi Shimbun. He has also worked with such organisations and institutions as the BBC, the Arts Council of Wales, the Centre for Environmental Humanities, Cornell University, and mental-health charity, Mind.

He is a two-time winner of the Museum of Haiku Literature Award, and his individual poems have won the NHK Haiku Masters Award and the Golden Triangle Haiku Award. His 2021 collection, The Dry Bones won the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Distinguished Book Award – the most prestigious prize in the field of English-language haiku.