Books Received
Quietude
By Dan Hardison
Self-published through Lulu.com
2024, Paperback, 148 pages
$22.37 USD
ISBN: 978-1-304-66499-0
Available from Lulu
From the Publisher: “In this collection Dan Hardison combines words and images following the Japanese haiga … The writing in this collection was selected from a ten-year period beginning in 2009 when he had his first poem published is fully illustrated using his photographs.” Includes 74 haiga and 30 haibun, with many of the haibun illustrated.
My Wife and Other Adventures
By Bob Lucky
Published by Red Moon Press
Winchester, Virginia, USA
2024, Paperback, 112 pages
$20 USD
ISBN: 978-1-958408-45-2
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From the Publisher: “Bob Lucky’s latest collection is a mondo memoir of tiny poetic narratives infused with his signature wit, wordplay, and philosophical musings; a handbook of 63 haibun that takes us meandering on a taste tour through the Near and Far East, entertaining as it enlightens. The poet also varies form and structure here (e.g., monoku, erasure, and a haibun with four paragraphs of one long sentence each, interwoven with four senryu). I’ve been enjoying Lucky’s marvelous writings for ten years now, and I look forward to another decade of his work.” — Clare MacQueen
a man on horseback
By Joe McKeon
Published by Red Moon Press
Winchester, Virginia, USA
2024, Paperback, 100 pages
$20 USD
ISBN: 978-1-958408-52-0
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From the Publisher: A collection of 81 haibun that recounts a life’s episodes—from growing up in the conservative 1950s to coming of age in a time of Woodstock and Vietnam to the compromises of corporate life and indignities of aging—and describes what it’s like to go from juke boxes, “submarine races,” and 33 1/3 records to smart phones, chatbots, and dating sites. “With humor and compassion, poet Joe McKeon writes everything from wistful coming of age stories to haibun on complex social issues such as poverty, homelessness, and racism. A book to read, feel, dig into, re-read, and ponder.”—Terri L. French
envelopes: a novellarette in eight envelopes
By Diana Webb
Published by Alba Publishing
Uxbridge, United Kingdom
2024, Paperback, 64 pages
ISBN: 978-1-912773-66-4
£12 GBP
Available from the author
From the Publisher: “In a series of haibun which extend and expand the form into sometimes unexpected territory, while always honouring the Japanese origin of the form, the author explores issues such as personal relationships, the Romantic Poets, the familiar landscape of the River Mole, and art and artists, from Cézanne to Turner, Monet to Hokusai, the Pre-Raphaelites and their muses.” The eight sections (“envelopes”) contain multiple haibun that, says the author in the preface, “should be read as the correspondence or work of fictional characters.”