Keith Evetts is a retired diplomat and former biologist living by the Thames. He’s published scientific papers in Nature and other journals, articles on local history, and long-form poetry in The Oxford Magazine and elsewhere. Listed in the ‘Top Hundred’ European haiku poets, at the close of 2024 some 900 of his haiku and related pieces have been published in a variety of journals, some nominated for awards, a couple listed, a handful anthologised. Since December 2021 he has hosted The Haiku Foundation’s weekly haiku commentary feature, re: Virals. He is an administrator of Facebook’s largest haiku group, and is one of the ten editors worldwide for the annual Red Moon Anthology of haiku and haibun. He’s married with five children, a cottage garden, a grey parrot and a sense of humour.
Bibliography
Book:
Year in year out / D’une année à l’autre, Françoise Maurice, Keith Evetts, & Sébastien Revon, Amazon KDP 2024 (ISBN 979-8-332-22768-4) (bilingual)
Individual poems:
Haiku and congeners in journals including — Frogpond, Blithe Spirit, cattails, Fireflies’ Light, Wales Haiku Journal, Presence, Modern Haiku, tsuri-doro, Cold Moon Journal, Five Fleas, Mamba, heliosparrow, Autumn Moon Journal, haikuKATHA, Failed Haiku, Prune Juice, LEAF, World Haiku Review, Asahi Haikuist, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Poetry Pea, Horror Senryu Journal, Haikuniverse, Sonic Boom, the cherita, GONG, Drifting Sands, Contemporary Haibun Online, CHO anthology for 2022 and 2023, Dwarf Stars anthology for 2022 , Shining Wind anthology (ed. Marcoff, Bingham, Stoianova and Hristov, 2024), Modern Haiku anthology 2022 and 2023, Red Moon Anthology for 2022 and 2023, Délice Des Mots—Délices Du Palais (ed. Nikolay et Maurice, Pippa editions 2024)
Long-form poems include The Oxford Magazine February 2021, May 2021 (three poems) and October 2021 (three poems); MacQueen’s Quinterly; Poems on Conflict ed. Peter King et. al. (Chough Publications, 2022); The Linnet’s Wings ed. Oonah Joslin (2021)