Book of the Week: Faraway Hills

Frank Williams has been a mainstay of British Haiku for the last decade, and his keen, often piquant observations and sure technique make his work easy to like. Faraway Hills (self-published, 2010) falls easily into this category, a very brief set of vignettes, each crisp and hinting of multiple stories beyond, as our examples will testify.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by THF president THF president Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.

a giant cricket leaps
into mother’s gasp —
Spanish heat
sipping a drink
each wave pounds sunlight
onto the dark sand
monday morning blues
beads of rain trickle
down the frosted pane