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Book of the Week: The Birds That Stay

george_thebirdsthatstaycoverBeverley George has been a strong advocate for haiku and related poems for more than a decade in Australia. This very brief chapbook (Eucalypt, 2013) gives us a taste of her voice and interests in a very handsome format.

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

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


first frost
the birds that stay
the birds that go


autumn reflections
the ochre of rockface
warms the river


Christmas aftermath
the slow uncrinkling
of cellophane


drought —
the dusty eyelashes
of a cow

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  2. Congratulations Beverley. This little gem of a book is one of the treasures on my shelf.

    one tiny feather
    all the colours of the bird
    weightless on my palm

    Just exquisite!

  3. Lovely to see this chapbook, with it’s excellent selection of haiku, available in THF archives.

    For some time, my favourite among these haiku has been:

    children’s zoo
    the one black-faced sheep
    gets all the pats

    Probably because it brings back memories of visiting the ‘patting’ area at the Royal Melbourne Show as a small child and, in my turn as parent, taking my son there, too. It rings so true to my experience.

    – Lorin

  4. Thanks for featuring this book by Beverley George.
    I enjoyed each of the haiku included.

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