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August 13, 2019 By Garry Eaton 2 Comments

Book of the Week: Long Shadows Haiku

 

Jane Gibian is an Australian poet, and a librarian at State Library of New South Wales. Her single book of haiku, Long Shadows Haiku, published in 2005 by Vagabond Press, is our Book of the Week. In her youth, Jane spent time as a teacher of ESL in Vietnam, and devoted half of the haiku in this collection to imagery derived from that experience. We loo forward to another chapbook of her excellent haiku.

winter evening alone
your watch by the bathtub

 

traffic jam:
revving the bike
in your white high heels

 

long shadows
the birds in hanging cages
quiet under coloured cloth

 

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

Do you have a chapbook published 2010 or earlier you would like featured as a Book of the Week? Contact us for details.

Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by THF Digital Librarian Garry Eaton, and are used with permission

 

 

Filed Under: Book-of-the-Week Archive Tagged With: Book of the Week, Jane Gibian, Long Shadows Haiku

Comments

  1. Robert Kingston says

    August 14, 2019 at 3:28 am

    outside the temple
    buying a white bird
    to set free
    .
    Agree with David. A wonderful collection.

    Reply
  2. David Jacobs says

    August 14, 2019 at 2:30 am

    the small human details that we are:

    *

    turning the compost heat
    the shovel strikes
    my favourite teaspoon

    *
    a wonderful collection

    Reply

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