MarkgZero
@markgzero.bsky.social
Writer. 'Ribbons and Rainbows', a mini poetry ebook published by Yavanika Press available at http://payhip.com/b/uB5Ri. 'Variations on the Planets', a short paperback co-written with Eavonka Ettinger is available from Amazon via www.azonlinks.com/B0DW9HBDG
A great honour to contribute to the latest Suspect Device zine Turning Japanese column with a Kerouacian #senryu #haiku, many thanks to editor Tim Gardiner - do check out Tim's 10-verse sequence and the other On The Road-inspired content from the Talent
suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.html
suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.html
November 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A great honour to contribute to the latest Suspect Device zine Turning Japanese column with a Kerouacian #senryu #haiku, many thanks to editor Tim Gardiner - do check out Tim's 10-verse sequence and the other On The Road-inspired content from the Talent
suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.html
suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.html
3 ~#monoku at latest Five Fleas Itchy Poetry. fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/10/afte...
'Crackle' inspired by this video (you can hear it at ~0:04). Sinéad O'Connor channelling Veronica Lake while singing a Cole Porter tune. Her voice barely louder than the crackle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK9d...
'Crackle' inspired by this video (you can hear it at ~0:04). Sinéad O'Connor channelling Veronica Lake while singing a Cole Porter tune. Her voice barely louder than the crackle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK9d...
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
3 ~#monoku at latest Five Fleas Itchy Poetry. fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/10/afte...
'Crackle' inspired by this video (you can hear it at ~0:04). Sinéad O'Connor channelling Veronica Lake while singing a Cole Porter tune. Her voice barely louder than the crackle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK9d...
'Crackle' inspired by this video (you can hear it at ~0:04). Sinéad O'Connor channelling Veronica Lake while singing a Cole Porter tune. Her voice barely louder than the crackle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK9d...
Very pleased to be part of the latest Haiku Dialogue, theme: Music Around the World – Loving you with all of my tunes or let’s talk about feelings, thanks to editor Deborah Karl-Brandt. Congrats to all feature. A fantastic selection of musical haiku. thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Very pleased to be part of the latest Haiku Dialogue, theme: Music Around the World – Loving you with all of my tunes or let’s talk about feelings, thanks to editor Deborah Karl-Brandt. Congrats to all feature. A fantastic selection of musical haiku. thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
Pleased to have a minimalist poem at SMOLS, thanks to editor Roberta Jacobson. Here's a graphical version. smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Pleased to have a minimalist poem at SMOLS, thanks to editor Roberta Jacobson. Here's a graphical version. smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
Another sample from the latest Fireflies' Light, this time a #kyoka. Many thanks to editors John J. Han & Mason Arledge. #chess #tanka #TankaThursday Check the issue out here www.mobap.edu/about.../pub...
October 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Another sample from the latest Fireflies' Light, this time a #kyoka. Many thanks to editors John J. Han & Mason Arledge. #chess #tanka #TankaThursday Check the issue out here www.mobap.edu/about.../pub...
What a joy to be part of the latest Fireflies' Light issue whose pages feature different poetic forms side by side. Many thanks to editors John J. Han & Mason Arledge. I have four forms included; here are my favourites, both happen to be ekphrastic. Check it out here www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/pu...
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What a joy to be part of the latest Fireflies' Light issue whose pages feature different poetic forms side by side. Many thanks to editors John J. Han & Mason Arledge. I have four forms included; here are my favourites, both happen to be ekphrastic. Check it out here www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/pu...
Delighted to appear alongside other examples of Ju Roku at Steve Wilkinson's latest Bamboo Hut, a variety of expressions and styles. Well done to all - here are three of mine.
thebamboohut.weebly.com
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October 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Delighted to appear alongside other examples of Ju Roku at Steve Wilkinson's latest Bamboo Hut, a variety of expressions and styles. Well done to all - here are three of mine.
thebamboohut.weebly.com
thebamboohut.weebly.com
Pleased to be included at Haiku Dialogue, thanks editor @dkarlbrandt.bsky.social. A wonderful selection of musical haiku. I was inspired by the lovely prompt by April Yang which led me back to Japan's marvellous 'Talking Drum' (1981).⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIf5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIf5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnP...
October 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Pleased to be included at Haiku Dialogue, thanks editor @dkarlbrandt.bsky.social. A wonderful selection of musical haiku. I was inspired by the lovely prompt by April Yang which led me back to Japan's marvellous 'Talking Drum' (1981).⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIf5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIf5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnP...
Great to debut in the new minimalist #poetry journal SMOLS thanks to editor Robin Jacobson. Mine is a 2-worder written listening to Ride while thinking about supernovae. Also sharing Kimberly Kuchar's wonderful redacted one.
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025_09_24_a...
youtube.com/watch?v=gIsn...
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025_09_24_a...
youtube.com/watch?v=gIsn...
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Great to debut in the new minimalist #poetry journal SMOLS thanks to editor Robin Jacobson. Mine is a 2-worder written listening to Ride while thinking about supernovae. Also sharing Kimberly Kuchar's wonderful redacted one.
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025_09_24_a...
youtube.com/watch?v=gIsn...
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025_09_24_a...
youtube.com/watch?v=gIsn...
Delighted to debut in the #tanka journal Quail Eggs and chosen as the Editor's Choice for Issue #2 with an interesting commentary by Alison Williams. See the link, a superb selection of tanka.
blossoms falling
through glass
the silent wind
the angle
of this easy chair
quaileggstanka.blogspot.com
blossoms falling
through glass
the silent wind
the angle
of this easy chair
quaileggstanka.blogspot.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Delighted to debut in the #tanka journal Quail Eggs and chosen as the Editor's Choice for Issue #2 with an interesting commentary by Alison Williams. See the link, a superb selection of tanka.
blossoms falling
through glass
the silent wind
the angle
of this easy chair
quaileggstanka.blogspot.com
blossoms falling
through glass
the silent wind
the angle
of this easy chair
quaileggstanka.blogspot.com
I'm extremely happy to appear in Heron's Nest XXVII/3. I've been trying to return to this #haiku journal for over four years so I'm extremely grateful to triagist Fay Aoyagi and the rest of the editors for their support. Congratulations to everyone featured. theheronsnest.com/September202...
September 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'm extremely happy to appear in Heron's Nest XXVII/3. I've been trying to return to this #haiku journal for over four years so I'm extremely grateful to triagist Fay Aoyagi and the rest of the editors for their support. Congratulations to everyone featured. theheronsnest.com/September202...
I’m very pleased to appear in Heterodox Haiku Contrarians: Dissent in Japanese Inspired Micropoetics. Excellent editorship from @BerglundJerome.
Read free online: archive.org/details/hete...
Paper copy available at cost from Nun Prophet Press via Amazon worldwide.
Read free online: archive.org/details/hete...
Paper copy available at cost from Nun Prophet Press via Amazon worldwide.
September 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’m very pleased to appear in Heterodox Haiku Contrarians: Dissent in Japanese Inspired Micropoetics. Excellent editorship from @BerglundJerome.
Read free online: archive.org/details/hete...
Paper copy available at cost from Nun Prophet Press via Amazon worldwide.
Read free online: archive.org/details/hete...
Paper copy available at cost from Nun Prophet Press via Amazon worldwide.
Sad to see the demise of Failed Haiku, imho the best #senryu journal, notable for its constant encouragement to explore the form. Many thanks to Mike Rehling & @Kelly Moyer and previous editors guest and otherwise. Proud to appear in the final issue along with other contributors. failedhaiku.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Sad to see the demise of Failed Haiku, imho the best #senryu journal, notable for its constant encouragement to explore the form. Many thanks to Mike Rehling & @Kelly Moyer and previous editors guest and otherwise. Proud to appear in the final issue along with other contributors. failedhaiku.com
Proud to have two #micropoems in latest Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, I think if you'd plot the poems selected my two would each be near different vertices of the various vertices that the poets are aiming for, so I'm pleased. Many thanks to editor Beach. fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/08/morn...
August 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Proud to have two #micropoems in latest Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, I think if you'd plot the poems selected my two would each be near different vertices of the various vertices that the poets are aiming for, so I'm pleased. Many thanks to editor Beach. fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/08/morn...
1/2 I'm very pleased to have a #haiku and two #tanka in the elegant digital journal Kokako #43 (first time, and first time in New Zealand), many thanks to EiC Graham Bates. The issue is available to peruse at kokako10.wordpress.com/current-issue/, highly recommended.
August 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/2 I'm very pleased to have a #haiku and two #tanka in the elegant digital journal Kokako #43 (first time, and first time in New Zealand), many thanks to EiC Graham Bates. The issue is available to peruse at kokako10.wordpress.com/current-issue/, highly recommended.
Worth checking out Horror Senryu Journal for everything you could want in terms of horror-themed or just vaguely unsettling #senryu #haiku curated by editor Thomas Tilton - here is one of mine
horrorkujournal.blogspot.com
horrorkujournal.blogspot.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Worth checking out Horror Senryu Journal for everything you could want in terms of horror-themed or just vaguely unsettling #senryu #haiku curated by editor Thomas Tilton - here is one of mine
horrorkujournal.blogspot.com
horrorkujournal.blogspot.com
Yeh, quite an experience reading the latest Five Fleas and great to contribute again thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson here are a couple among the thought-provoking works fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/08/morn...
August 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Yeh, quite an experience reading the latest Five Fleas and great to contribute again thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson here are a couple among the thought-provoking works fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/08/morn...
Honoured to have a couple of #haiku* in the beautiful Summer 2025 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social. Thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse & @loverpoetic.bsky.social. Congrats to all who appear. Available to view free at www.waleshaikujournal.com
* Great to have a Welsh poem in there! 1/2
* Great to have a Welsh poem in there! 1/2
August 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Honoured to have a couple of #haiku* in the beautiful Summer 2025 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social. Thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse & @loverpoetic.bsky.social. Congrats to all who appear. Available to view free at www.waleshaikujournal.com
* Great to have a Welsh poem in there! 1/2
* Great to have a Welsh poem in there! 1/2
July 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Pleased to be in latest Sonic Boom with this curio*
in the foreground of decadence
please may I listen to your belly
Many thanks to editor @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom
*After Hieronymous Bosch, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, centre panel.
in the foreground of decadence
please may I listen to your belly
Many thanks to editor @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom
*After Hieronymous Bosch, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, centre panel.
July 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Pleased to be in latest Sonic Boom with this curio*
in the foreground of decadence
please may I listen to your belly
Many thanks to editor @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom
*After Hieronymous Bosch, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, centre panel.
in the foreground of decadence
please may I listen to your belly
Many thanks to editor @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom
*After Hieronymous Bosch, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, centre panel.
Another #sportku for #SenryuSunday. Somewhere between a #senryu and a #haiku - it's about a preoccupation with human activity but very much also about the natural environment and cycles. Of course I don't play golf myself.
July 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Another #sportku for #SenryuSunday. Somewhere between a #senryu and a #haiku - it's about a preoccupation with human activity but very much also about the natural environment and cycles. Of course I don't play golf myself.
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I'm very proud to see this hopeful #haiku at Cold Moon Journal, thanks to editors Timothy Daly & Oana Cercel, and many thanks to @fati1212.bsky.social for the Arabic translation. #Gaza #Palestine #poetry
coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/mark...
coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/mark...
June 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm very proud to see this hopeful #haiku at Cold Moon Journal, thanks to editors Timothy Daly & Oana Cercel, and many thanks to @fati1212.bsky.social for the Arabic translation. #Gaza #Palestine #poetry
coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/mark...
coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/mark...
I saw this guy on a strawberry #MyPhoto. I think it’s a Green Shield Bug nymph (Palomena prasina) 2nd instar but I’d love someone to tell me if this is right or not.
June 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I saw this guy on a strawberry #MyPhoto. I think it’s a Green Shield Bug nymph (Palomena prasina) 2nd instar but I’d love someone to tell me if this is right or not.