Singed Leaves - A Book of Haiku Poetry

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Width:  9  Inches
Height:  6  Inches
Pages:  64
Format:  Paperback
Publication Date:  May 1, 1990
Illustrations:  None
Publisher:  Dundurn Press

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Singed Leaves, a book of 81 haiku, is Marshall Hryciuk‘s sixth book of poetry and his third of haiku. In the introduction he describes his very personal approach to the historically Japanese poetic gentre, haiku.

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Marshall Hryciuk began writing poetry in hi home town of Hamilton, Ontario, and continued to write while working on his BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto (1975). After publication of his poetry in Acta Victoriana while he was still at University, his first cook, fine wing, which included twenty-two haiku, appeared in 1978. Long active in Haiku Canada, he served for three years as its secretary-treasurer and was one of the organizers of the Harbourfront International Haiku Festival in 1980. In 1982 he helped found and continues to co-edit Inkstone, which has become the foremost magazine in North America devoted exclusively to haiku. A frequent purveyor of small press magazines and books to Toronto bookstores in the early eighties, he inaugurated his own press, Nietzsche‘s Brolly (1985) and continues to be a stalwart of Toronto‘s poetry underground.

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