Books Received
A Lantern on the Bridge: Haiku and Haibun
By Glenn G. Coats
Pineola Publishing
Carolina Shores, North Carolina
2025, paperback, 100 pages
ISBN: 979-8-268668-43-8
$15.00 USD
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A collection of 30 haiku and 26 haibun written during a time in the author’s life when his mother’s health was failing and Coats returned to the state where he grew up to be close to her. From the Book’s “Back Story”: “I grew up fishing the South Branch of the Raritan River in Flemington, New Jersey … In the spring of 2023, I returned to those places I fished as a child … After a fifty year absence, the river once again shaped my thoughts and gave direction to my words. My haiku were filled with images of the past and present while my haibun spiraled down pages in the form of free verse. The poems reflect the last months I spent with my mother and the two years that I have spent wading through the beauty of the river I love—the river that is so much a part of who I am.”
Did You See the Moon Honey: A Crown of Haibun
By Katie Dozier & Timothy Green
Fungible Editions
2025, paperback, 40 pages
ISBN: 978-1-961694-02-6
$12.99 USD
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As in their previous collection Hot Pink Moon, Dozier and Green have adapted the sonnet “crown” to create an interlocking series of 30 haibun. Every day throughout April 2024, shortly after they married, the couple took turns writing a haibun that, using its predecessor’s capping haiku, created surprising leaps, twists, and turns. From the Publisher: “Did You See the Moon Honey is the second 30-day haibun cycle in a form created by Dozier and Green … Each haibun skillfully links haiku and prose and is further linked through a well-crafted daisy chain of shared words, with the last stem looping back to the first bloom to complete the haibun crown. Momentum builds as the evolving prompt primes a dynamic volley between the poets that elevates both intimate and everyday moments. At a time when contemporary haibun is exploding with innovation, the haibun crown is a welcome and ingenious expansion to the range of possibilities.”—Kat Lehmann
The novelty of novello
By Diana Webb
Alba Publishing
2026, paperback, 68 pages
ISBN: 978-1-912773-79-4
£12.99 GBP
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From the Publisher: “Award-winning haibun writer Diana Webb’s third collection with Alba Publishing concerns two very different female characters conversant with her favourite genre, who hear a song on the radio and respond with pieces in the form relevant to their respective situations. Totally unaware of each other, they are nevertheless connected. Their writings both play with possibilities and explore themes of renewal. They also touch on literary and visual art sources.”