Jenny Shepherd, UK

Introducing  : Jenny Shepherd is a British poet, who has been writing poetry since her teens, though she had 20-year hiatus from her late twenties.  Her father, an English professor at a Taiwanese university, introduced her to haiku when she was about 15, and it remains her favourite verse form.  She won a competition for young poets when she was 17.  Since joining The Daily Haiku Facebook group in 2020, she has had various Japanese verse form poems published in national and international journals.  She is currently the Communications Officer for The British Haiku Society.

oxbow lakes
the discarded friends
of the river

November 30th 2023