New Books Received
A Synonym for Gone
by Glenn G. Coats
Snapshot Press, Ormskirk, Great Britain, 2021
This is Glenn Coats’s second collection of haibun that won Snapshot Press’s annual eChapbooks Awards competition. (The first, Degrees of Acquaintance, came out in 2019.) A Synonym for Gone contains 24 haibun that deal with loss and connection, aging and memory, family and love. Reading through them, one realizes how fleeting this life is and, in the hands of a writer as skillful as Coats, how touching: life of a mayfly / the breath it takes / to say I love you. Available as a free download or PDF at http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/ebooks.htm.
Fragile Horizons
By Diana Webb
The Magic Pen Press, Suffolk, Great Britain, 2022; £7.99 includes p&p.
Diana Webb’s latest collection features 70 individual haibun in a variety of styles, including gembun (a single sentence followed by a haiku) and quartets (two interlocking haiku sandwiched between two phrases), as well as three “haibun novellarettes.” Available from The Magic Pen Press, 44 Lattice Ave., Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 5LL, Great Britain. Checks should be made payable to John Gonzalez. E-mail enquiries to General Editor John Gonzaelez at johngonzalez@hotmail.co.uk.
The cost of ‘Fragile Horizons ‘ would be more than the £7.99 stated above , for those living outside the UK, on account of increased postal charges. Anyone interested in buying a copy should contact the publisher at the given email address for details.