Since 2002 Anne Brooke has written a haiku or two every Sunday. This book contains her haikus written in the year 2009. These short poems are Anne Brooke’s meditations on life, publishing, nature and herself. They are simply brilliant and beautiful.
An extremely well written collection of haiku poems, rich in language and imagery. Each month and season of the year is eloquently described and characterised by the authors beautiful writing.
“Over windswept grass kites form speech marks in the sky. Words never spoken.”
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Anne Brooke’s haikus. I’ve been reading them religiously on her blog for a few years now, so when I saw she’d published a collection of them, I was rapt. My mistake, but I didn’t realise the book only conatined 52 haikus (700 words), one for each Sunday in 2009. I read them in a flash and, like fine choclate, I was left wanting more…