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From
the haikukai circles of British Columbia's internment camps to the seminal
Canadian anthologies edited by George Swede, Dorothy Howard and André
Duhaime, and Marshall Hryciuk, to the avant-garde elements of Gregory
Betts’s Haikube, and Gary Barwin and derek beaulieu's frogments in the
frag pool, Terry Ann Carter has given haiku a wide sweep in the pages
of Haiku in Canada. Featuring over 175 poets, including translated poems
from French Canada, her labour over a decade has resulted in a tour de
force of history and poetry.
Terry Ann Carter’s book is a revelation. I can only slap my forehead
and cry, “Why didn’t we have something like this earlier!” Fun and involving,
a potpourri of carefully researched history, key documents and poems,
and personal memoir, Haiku in Canada is must-read for everyone interested
in the evolution of North American haiku.
~ Charles Trumbull
former president of the Haiku Society of America
former editor of Modern Haiku
Poet and paper artist Terry Ann Carter is the author of six collections
of long form poetry, two haiku guidebooks, and five haiku chapbooks; she
has edited four haiku anthologies. As past president of Haiku Canada,
founder of and facilitator for KaDo Ottawa (2001-2012) and Haiku Arbutus
Victoria Study Group (2014-present), she has given hundreds of haiku and
book arts workshops around the world. Tokaido (Red Moon Press, 2017) won
a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award, and in 2019, she was a judge for
the first International Haiku Contest for the city of Morioka, Japan.
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