Off the Beaten Track: A Year in Haiku

Off the Beaten Track presents new work by twelve writers taking part in a unique collaborative project. Each contributor was invited to compose one haiku per day for a month, towards a total of 365 haiku for a full calendar year. Half of the authors are widely published writers of haiku, while the other half are much admired for their work in other fields of writing (ranging across poetry, prose and songwriting), but are almost, or even entirely, new to writing haiku.

Several writers are based in the UK or the US, while others are in Canada, Ethiopia, Holland and Japan, adding geographical variety to the diversity of voices and perspectives.

The result is a fascinating collection of glimpses into the lives of twelve highly distinctive writers through their observations of the minutiae of their daily activities and the world around them