Book of the Week: Moss Hung Trees
This collection captures the less well-defined seasonal variations of the rain forests of West coast British Columbia.
Book of the Week: Dystopian Dreamscapes
. . . the hardships experienced in the Rust Belt provided motivation to this apocalyptic, hell-bent-for-leather poet of the people.
Book of the WeeK : Somokuto (Grass and Tree Cairn)
Santoka published Somokuto (Grass and Tree Cairn), an assemblage of earlier chapbooks, several months before he died of a heart attack while asleep drunk.
Book of the Week: And A White Butterfly
His haiku are notable for the poet’s gentle connection to the natural world, and his extraordinary powers of imaginative observation.
Book of the Week: Ikebana
A collection about natural renewal that repays attention during these dark days.
Book of the Week: Sting Medicine
Cherie's fine haiku are published widely in the journals of 'modern' haiku, and elsewhere.
Book of the Week: Called Home
Paul is recognized as one of the leading voices in English language haiku. I
Book of the Week: Dewdrops On the Weeds
.. a master of expressing brief, emotional moments that open a light into the darkness.
Book of the Week: When Almost Nothing Happens: Haiku With Very Few Verbs
. . . something to savor as one sniffs the aroma of the still life or the bouquet of a portrait.
Book of the Week: Growing Through the Dark
In this chapbook, Dudley’s poetic imagination is concerned with vivid, subtly meaningful moments from domestic life.
Book of the Week: Not A Word Too Much
. . . several brilliant haiku sequences, in Dutch and English, by Max Verhart . . .
Book of the Week: A Compendium of Glimpses
Steve Dolphy"s haiku are marked by keen observation, a lively sense of humour, and the imaginative use of odd connections that make them especially memorable.
Book of the Week: For A Moment
Welch's works are almost always sharp, concrete renditions of original moments, and this collection is a fine example of his skillful work.
Book of the Week: Glass Bell
The haiku of Leroy Gorman, Canadian poet, are unique for their playfulness, and for their visual wit . . .
Book of the Week: Long Shadows
. . .her haiku brilliantly express the transient, fleeting nature of experience and perception.
Book of the Week: Vietnam Ruminations
Partly because Vietnam was such a different kind of war, and so controversial at home in the US, Wilson prefers to see it on its own terms, creating his own rhetoric rather than using the tradition rhetoric of historical justifications.
Book of the Week: Where the Wind Turns: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2009
This prestigious series of anthologies, begun in 1996, is perhaps the longest running of its kind in English.