POET KARKOW RELEASES SECOND BOOK - ‘shorelines’ combines haiku, tanka, and haibun inspired by life on the Coast of Maine

The second book by award-winning poet Kirsty Karkow, of Waldoboro, Maine (USA), was released in May 2007: shorelines: haiku, haibun, and tanka brings together more than 100 haiku, tanka, poem sequences, and haibun, each one-to-a-page, with an foreword by Beverley George, president of HaikuOz, the Australian Haiku Society, and the editor of Eucalypt, Australia’s first literary journal devoted to tanka. The 132-page, softcover book also features six delightful watercolor illustrations as well as a full-color cover painting by Karkow.

"These vivid pictures of land and water would, alone, make Karkow a remarkable poet; but it’s the undertow of her inner-life that truly engages the reader," wrote Winfred Press editor Larry Kimmel. "These are strong poems by a strong woman. How lucky we are to have Kirsty Karkow."

Published by Black Cat Press (BCP), in Eldersburg, Maryland (USA), shorelines comes two years after Karkow’s popular first collection, water poems: haiku, tanka, and sijo, also published by BCP and now in its second printing. Poet and translator Jane Hirshfield called water poems, "…Various as dappled light, a wonderful alloy of Asian forms and contemporary speech and perception…. Moving and deft."

Like water poems, shorelines was edited by prize-winning poet and journalist Cathy Drinkwater Better, co-owner of Black Cat Press, along with her husband Doug Walker.

For ordering information, for either shorelines or water poems, contact: Kirsty Karkow: by phone at 207-832-6934, or by e-mail at kirsty@midcoast.com.

For media inquiries, contact: Kirsty Karkow: by phone at 207-832-6934, or by e-mail at kirsty@midcoast.com; or Cathy Drinkwater Better (Walker) at Black Cat Press, by phone at 410-795-0703, or by e-mail at cbetter@juno.com.