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.
Book of the Week: Tamarack and Clearcut
Justly known for keen observation combined with exactitude of expression, the Canadian poet Marianne Bluger repays close reading . . .
Book of the Week: Towing the Breeze
Canals, and their associated locks, and tow paths were once more numerous in England than almost anywhere.
Book of the Week: Drifting
...a compelling story of farm life for women during the late 19th and early 20th C.
Book of the Week: The Parsley Bed
I can think of no better way to recommend Ken’s work than by immersing you in one of his characteristic haibun in full.
Book of the Week:Big Sky, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, 2006
If you like to read the best of the best, these anthologies are hard to beat.
Book of the Week: The First Australian Haiku Anthology
This book was the first in what has become a substantial shelf of Australian haiku anthologies.
Book of the Week: Still At the Edge
. . .early notice of the talent she would display for the next thirty years In American haiku circles.
Book of the Week: Fire Blossoms
Denis's haiku noir are often shaped by his experiences of war, and effectively plunge the reader into that alien arena.
Book of the Week: 2007 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku
For concentrated quality of writing in several haiku related genres, year after year the Red Moon anthologies are unequaled.
Book of the Week: Poems Along the Path
It is tragic that such fine poetry had to come from the consciousness of mortality.
Book of the Week: Non Senza Titolo
Gahnertz's haiku, many of which betray a casual, hit and miss attitude toward structure and theme, are occasionally arresting.