"Quartet is a new and fresh approach to the haibun genre, with participants from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and England. This is taking haibun to the outer limits. Like a renku with 36 links it dips and dives from one continent to another. We encounter turtles, needlework, numerous butterflies and a bank robbery. The haibun average out at a hundred words each. Like the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour, we visit Taoist immortals on Mt.Penglai ( J.W.); a cycad becomes a mantra ( J.H.); a...
More Description"Quartet is a new and fresh approach to the haibun genre, with participants from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and England. This is taking haibun to the outer limits. Like a renku with 36 links it dips and dives from one continent to another. We encounter turtles, needlework, numerous butterflies and a bank robbery. The haibun average out at a hundred words each. Like the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour, we visit Taoist immortals on Mt.Penglai ( J.W.); a cycad becomes a mantra ( J.H.); a house evoking deja vu (P.P.); giggles at Benediction (D.W)." - Bill Wyatt