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Buttonhook Press 2022 Chapbook Series
Poetry: All forms & styles
Haiku
Adjei Agyei-Baah
SCARING CROW
With a Foreword by Hiroaki Sato
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Scaring Crow reviewed by Gregory Piko
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celebrating the publication of Adjei Agyei-Baah‘s chapbook Scaring Crow.
About the writer:
Adjei Agyei-Baah is the author of Afriku (Red Moon Press, 2016), Ghana,21 Haiku (Mamba Africa Press, 2017), Piece of My Fart (2018), Finding the Other Door (2021) and Mamelon a Mamelon (Edition Unicite, 2021). His coedited/co-authored books include The Awakened One: Buddha-Themed-Haiku From Around The World (Poetry Chaikhana,2021) and Trio of Windows (JUNPA,2018). Adjei is the primary author of the four Haikupedia articles about African haiku. He is the co-founder of Africa Haiku Network and The Mamba (Africa’s premiere haiku journal). He teaches English and Literature at the University of Ghana’s School of Continuing and Distance Education, and is currently pursuing his PhD studies at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
Image:Crow and Willow Tree by Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889). Album leaf: ink and color on silk. 14.25 x 10.5 inches. 1887. [Background cropped away. Color adjusted.] Public domain.
I am a guest editor for The Haiku Foundation’s “Haiku of the Day” and I am requesting permission to include the following haiku by Adjei Agyei-Baah in a collection of Fall themed haiku to be posted in September:
ripened field–
an old scarecrow invites
birds to party
Kindly let me know.
I’ll forward your request.