The following reviews focus mainly on haiku and tanka books, and were first published from about 1990 onward. As a result, they include ordering details that may no longer be accurate. These are reviews I’ve written; for reviews of my books written by others, links are provided on the Books page, where available. See also Recommended Books on Haiku. ★ = most recommended (start with these)
If you have any comments or questions, please contact Michael Dylan Welch. Poetry Books Archipelago by Arthur Sze You Can’t Be Serious by Ronald Wallace
Haiku Anthologies The Dover Haiku Anthology: A Review [previously unpublished]
Alachua: North Florida Haiku by Kenneth C. Leibman American Gothic by Steven Carter At Bat by Cor van den Heuvel Between Waves by Alexis Rotella
Chester Creek Ravine by Bart Sutter Chrysanthemum Dusk by Susan B. Auld ★ Complex Echoes: A Review of North Lake by Ce Rosenow
Dandelion Seeds by Arvinder Kaur Desert Wind by Ferenc Bakos Drumming in the Free World by Kim Redshaw The Essence of Modern Haiku by Seishi Yamaguchi The Fingertips of a Glassblower by Bill Cooper First Frost by Zhu Hao From the Upper Room by anne mckay Getting On by Ernest J. Berry
Grandma’s Chip Bowl by David Jacobs The Haiku Bag by Naomi Beth Wakan Haiku Chiaroscuro by David Cobb Haiku Edge: New and Selected Haiku by Robert Epstein Happy Wake Up by Milenko D. Ćirović Ljutički Horizon by Anatoly Kudryavitsky Hundreds of Wishes by Francine Porad Monsoon by William Hart The Open Eye by Lenard D. Moore A Path of Desire: Tan Renga by Peter Newton and Kathe L. Palka Puerto Rico by Anita Virgil The Regulars by Matthew Paul and Waiting for the Seventh Wave by John Barlow Senryu: Poems of the People by J. C. Brown Small Things Make Me Laugh by Yu Chang
39 Haiku by Robert Kania Voice of the Cicada by Raffael de Gruttola ★ Wall Street Park: A Concrete Renku by Raffael de Gruttola and Carlos Colón Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku by Pat Boran What Light There Is by Sylvia Forges-Ryan Winnows by Maxianne Berger
Books About Haiku Discovering Fire by David Grayson ★ The Haiku Seasons by William J. Higginson JuxtaOne and JuxtaTwo, edited by Peter McDonald ★ Renga Roots: Haiku Before Haiku by Steven D. Carter
Books for Children or Young Adults★ Birds on a Wire by J. Patrick Lewis and Paul B. Janeczko ★ Feeling Haiku Through
Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude Least Things by Jane Yolen Origami Pinwheels by Kay L. Tracy ★ Two Books for Children (Keisuke Nishimoto’s Haiku Picturebook for Children and Matthew Gollub’s Cool Melons—Turn to Frogs!) [previously unpublished]
Novels Featuring Haiku The Haiku Murder by Fran Pickering The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart RecordingsTanka Anthologies Modern Tanka in Japan [not strictly a review, but related]
Individual Tanka Collections Short Songs: Tanka Poems by Amelia Fielden
This Hunger, Tissue-Thin by Larry Kimmel
A Sprig of Thyme by Reiko Nakagawa
Like Salt on Sun Spray by Pamela Miller Ness Poems in the Attic by Nikki Grimes
The Cold Moon Watching by Helen Robinson
Tracing Your Ribs by Claudia Rosemary Coutu
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