"Water on the Moon" haiku collection by Helen Buckingham

 

water on the moon 

by Helen Buckingham
original plus
Maryport, Cumbria, UK 2010
ISBN 978-0-9562433-5-5
£8.00 inclusive of U.K. post and package
To purchase a signed copy contact Helen - helenb47@googlemail.com


 

"I have long been a fan ... the haiku and senryu experiences in this collection run the gamut from soft and beautiful to humorous, some with an acerbic wit ... this is an ample serving of enjoyable poems by a strong, original writer."
Paul MacNeil, (USA) Associate Editor, The Heron's Nest: http://www.theheronsnest.com/journal/

"Helen Buckingham is one of those great haiku/senryu writers whose work invites us to revisit it again and again. I highly recommend Water on the Moon; it should be in every poet's library." 
Pamela A. Babusci (USA), internationally award winning haiku/tanka & haiga artist; and logo artist for Haiku North America conferences New York City 2003 and Winston-Salem, NC USA 2007.
 
"...an important part of the process of collecting together...(is)...that some should just mark time, the meaning loose, less focussed, waiting, or in preparation, for the next really startling event.  One could call this a process of constriction and dilation–a tying together and a loosening up. I have to say that reading Helen's book had me clicking files to check my own preparation of a collection of 'my' haiku...this is an excellent collection." Colin Blundell, editor of Blithe Spirit, journal of the British Haiku Society. Review published June 2010.

"Like the best wordsmiths, Helen Buckingham possesses what seems to be a wholly natural talent for translating the modern world and contemporary living, often in their minutest detail into exquisite poetry.  What's most striking about Helen Buckingham's poetry is its immediacy and proximity - each breath of poetry seems to exist within the moment of its making."
Liam Wilkinson, (Yorkshire, England) founding editor and curator of the 3Lights Gallery of Haiku and Tanka.
 

From the review by Colin Stewart Jones, (Aberdeen, Scotland) 

Managing Editor of international Notes from the Gean haiku online magazine and The Gean Tree Press.

"...water on the moon is a major collection by Buckingham which contains 250 poems over 84 pages set out in four sections which correlate to the seasons. The back page blurb contains endorsements by such haiku luminaries as Liam Wilkinson, Pamela A. Babusci and Paul MacNeil and a wonderfully comprehensive introduction by Alan Summers, in which he states:

"Honesty is a potent instrument and we have plenty of that: a life is brought to the microscope, with humour never far away, never a stranger to pain. We all like to think we have a keen sense of humour, and a strong streak of honesty; and Helen's collection is like a litmus test to our own pH."

Full review from Notes from the Gean:
http://www.notesfromthegean.com/archives/2010-003-march/indexreview3_10.html


Helen's work has previously been published in A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, Redmoon Press USA 2007, ISBN: 978-1-893959-65-1, edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts:
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The work of seventeen poets from seven different countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States) comprises the latest volume of up-and-coming poets working in the haiku form in English. This biennial project has now helped launch 85 poets into the haiku community, and each volume has received critical acclaim.


 

Alas,  I've noted A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku is now SOLD OUT.

Helen's collection 'water on the moon' is now on the With Words suggested reading list for our sell out residency courses based in Surrey U.K.

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