NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW
An independent small press poetry review
 A NEW RESONANCE 2 Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku edited by Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts Red Moon Press PO Box 2461 Winchester VA 22504-1661 USA ISBN 1 893959 20 1 $14.95 email Red Moon Press        Web design by  This page last updated: 10th December 2007. |
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17 poets are featured in this volume, each represented by around 15 haiku. Although the editorial claims the work is multi-national, in fact all but two are from the USA. Nonetheless there is quite a good variety among the contributors. First of the two UK contributors is the late John Crook. Perhaps my favourite of his is: her kiss on the bus window travels with me The other Brit is Matt Morden and it is good to see a piece like: Friday evening the chip shop counter worn by small changeHow many Americans have any idea of what a "chip shop" is? It is brave of the editors to include work containing specific cultural references that exclude the US-experience. Only a few of the other fifteen contributors were familiar to me, even though all have had work published in various magazines. Like the best of haiku anthologies, it is one that pays to be kept handy, so that it can be opened at random and a few individual pieces appreciated at a time. | ||
| reviewer: Gerald England |