Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Teach, and Appreciate Haiku (2013) by William J. Higginson and Penny Harter
History and craft of haiku. Many excellent examples. A classic in the field. Comprehensive and scholarly, yet engaging.
Haiku Enlightenment (2019) by Gabriel Rosenstock
A delightful introduction to the essence of haiku and the craft of writing haiku. Lots of good examples of both classical and contemporary haiku.
A Taste of Issa (2019) translated by David G. Lanoue
A big collection of haiku by the most loved of the four old Japanese masters of haiku, with translations and interesting informative commentary by arguably the foremost Issa scholar in the U.S. If you want more, check out Lanoue's website The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa, or Google "David G. Lanoue."Â
Write Like Issa: A Haiku How-To (2017) by David G. Lanoue
"To write like Issa means writing tenderly about one's fellow creatures, human and otherwise. . . .Issa writes with . . . compassion, insight, humor, honesty, and leaping imagination." (p. 9) This slim volume offers six lessons in how to do likewise.