I'm George Nelson, a haiku poet and illustrator from Napier, New Zealand, most based in Tokyo, Japan.

 

I first wrote haiku to relieve boredom in Japanese class in Tokyo in 2015. Initially my words were meant for hip-hop lyrics, but I soon realised I was destined to be a poet not a rapper. I started to habitually express what I felt, saw, heard and learned in life in the traditional Japanese 5-7-5.

 

Enjoying expressing myself in words soon led to expression through illustration, with a particular love of the interface between words and pictures. This is where the books, and the party, really began.