June Books: Short Form

 These books of short form work conclude the list of books I read last month.

the sky is all there is by Cathy Drinkwater Better

This was a book of the week from The Haiku Foundation. I enjoyed it!

Here is one I particularly liked:

descending 

through barren branches

moonface

Winter Deepens by Margaret Chula

This haiga/tanku chapbook is on the Snapfish site, where they have many chapbooks available to read online (link will open in a new window). This chapbook contains poetry written as the poet’s mother was dealing with issues related to old age.

Warm Under the Cat: A Book of Haiku and Senryu by Caroline Giles Banks

This was one of the books of the week received in the Haiku Foundation email. I really enjoyed this collection. Here’s an example I really liked:

His turn to cook

again he can’t find

          the thyme

The Quiet Quarter: Ten Years of Great Irish Writing  edited by Máire Nic Gearailt

I have had this book for 6 or 7 years, I think. I picked it up in a charity shop not long after we arrived in Ireland and I’ve been hauling it around since. I decided it was time to read it and pass it on, so that’s what I did. It’s a collection of short pieces (between 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 pages each) that were originally broadcast on a morning show on RTE Lyric FM radio (the show is no longer on). According to the introduction, the station would put out a call for writing on a topic (some examples are travel, Christmas, language) and people would send in their work. Those chosen would read the work and then a piece of music aligned with the theme would be played directly afterwards. I quite liked this book. Some of the pieces were funny, some thought provoking, some profound. Many were life stories of one sort or another. 

Happy reading!

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