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Frogpond 36.2 • 2013

Museum of Haiku
Literature Award

Haiku & Senryu

Essay on Form

Haibun

Haiku Sequence

Renku

Book Reviews

From the Editors

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Turn Turn by Christopher Patchel

Christopher Patchel. Turn Turn. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2013, unpag., perfect softbound, 5 x 7. ISBN: 978-1- 936848-14-0. US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

reviewed by Michael McClintock, Clovis, California

<Turn Turn by Christopher Patchel>
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Before Music by Philliip Rowland

Philip Rowland. Before Music. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2012, 54 pp., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.5. ISBN 978- 1-936848-19-5. US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

reviewed by Dan Schwerin, Greendale, Wisconsin

<Before Music by Phillip Rowland>
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The Doors All Locked by Caroline Hall

Carolyn Hall. The Doors All Unlocked. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2012, 102 pp., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.5. ISBN 978-1-936848-16-4. US$12.00.

reviewed by Michele Root-Bernstein, East Lansing, Michigan

<The Doors All Locked by Caroline Hall>
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Briefly Reviewed

David Jacobs. Just Before Bed. Spalding, Lincolnshire, U.K.: Hub editions, 2012, handmade perfect softbound, 4.75 x 6.25. ISBN 978-1-903746-98-1. US$10. Available from the author at <davidjacobs2011@gmail.com>.

Michael Henry Lee. Against the Grain, Haiku and Senryu. Saint Augustine, FL: Eleventh Hour Press, 2012, 56 pp., spiral bound, 5.5 x 8.5. No ISBN. US$8 ($10 overseas). Available from the author at <michaelhenrylee@bellsouth.net>.

Zoran Mimica. Without Keys, haiku poems with love. PyTao Press/Red Moon Press, 2012, perfect softbound, 5 x 7. ISBN 978-1-936848-13-3. US$12 from <http://www.red moonpress.com>.

Ken Jones. Bog Cotton, haiku stories and haiku. Uxbridge, U.K.: Alba Pub., 2012, 94 pp., perfect softbound, 5.75 x 8.25. ISBN 978-0-9572592-2-5. US$16.

Steven Carter. Interiors. Uxbridge, U.K.: Alba Pub., 2012, 120 pp., perfect softbound, 5.75 x 8.25. ISBN 978-0-9572592-5-6. US$16.

Steven Carter. Book of Dreams. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2012, 70 pp., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.5. ISBN 978-1-936848-15-7. US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

Alvin Thomas Ethington, ed. Pieces of Her Mind: Women Find Their Voice in Centuries-Old Forms. Palm Springs, CA: Omega Publications, 2012, 185 pp., hardcover, 5.75 x 8.75. ISBN 978-0-9850350-7-5. US$17.95/$9.95 (paperback), from booksellers.

Rebecca Lilly. Yesterday’s Footprints. Allan Burns, ed. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2012, 66 pp., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.5. ISBN 978-1-936848-17-1. US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

Magpie Haiku and Tanka Poets. Weathered Wings: An Anthology of Poetry. Alberta: published privately, 2012, 72 pp., perfect softbound, 5.75 x 6.5. ISBN 978-0-969356-42-4. No price given, from Joanne Morcom at <morcomj@telus.net>.

Kaneko Tohta. Selected Haiku With Notes and Commentary, Part 2, 1961–2012. Translated by The Kon Nichi Translation Group. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2012, 250 pp., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.5. ISBN 978-1-936848- 21-8. US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

Michael Dylan Welch, ed. With Cherries on Top. Sammamish, WA: Press Here, 2012, 140 pp., ebook. ISBN 978- 878798-34-3. Free download from <http://www.sites.google.com/site/nahaiwrimo/with-cherries-on-top>.

briefly reviewed by Michele Root-Bernstein, East Lansing, Michigan
& Francine Banwarth, Dubuque, Iowa

<Briefly Reviewed>
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