Books Briefly Reviewed
Where Rain Would Stay: The Haiku Poetry of Peggy Willis Lyles
Where Rain Would Stay: The Haiku Poetry of Peggy Willis Lyles, edited by John Barlow and Ferris Gilli (Snapshot Press, Ormskirk, Lancashire: 2022). 240 pages. 8.5 x 5.5. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-903543- 45-0. £30.00 on https://www.snapshotpress.co.uk.
They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry From the WWII Portland Assembly Center
They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry From the WWII Portland Assembly Center edited and translated by Shelley Baker-Gard, Michael Freiling, and Satsuki Takikawa (Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR: 2023). 200 pages. 6 x 9. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0- 87071-235-7. $29.95 dollars from https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/ book/they-never-asked and online booksellers.
Designated Driver: A Selection of Haiku, Senryu, and Small Poems
Designated Driver: A Selection of Haiku, Senryu, and Small Poems by Stanford M. Forrester / sekiro (Wooden Nickle Press, a division of bottle rockets press, Windsor, CT: 2023) 80 pages. 5.5 x 8. Four-color card covers, perfect bound. ISBN: 978-1-7366037- 8-9. For ordering information, contact the poet by email at: bottlerockets_99@yahoo.com.
Skipping Stones: the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2022
Skipping Stones: the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2022, editor-in-chief, Jim Kacian (Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA: 2023). 202 pages, 5.5 x 8.25. Glossy, four-color covers, perfect softbound. ISBN: 978-1-958408-16-2. $20 from https://redmoonpress.com.