The Warm Land and Last Train Home
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The Warm Land (Caitlin Press, 2026) is Jacqueline Pearce’s inaugural collection of haiku poetry.
In it, she takes us to her childhood home in the Cowichan Valley, marked by
the haunting sounds of migrating geese, the warm sweetness of a ripe
blackberry, and the close darkness of a moonless night. With the precise
form of haiku, Pearce distills moments of childhood, adolescence and the
dawn of adulthood, carrying the reader through an arc that is both personal
and universal―from discovery and awe, to loss and nostalgia, and, finally,
to homecoming.
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Last Train Home (Pondhawk Press, 2021) — Hop onboard and experience the sights, smells, sounds, and emotions of train travel around the globe. Edited by award-winning haiku poet, Jacqueline Pearce, Last Train Home is an international collection of close to 600 haiku, tanka, rengay, and haiku sequences by 193 poets from 22 different countries. The anthology features poems by some of the best contemporary English-language haiku poets, and includes a selection of poems in more than one language. Winner of the Haiku Society of America Merit Award for best haiku anthology, 2022. The collection is aimed at adults, but teachers will find many examples of poems to inspire middle grade and teen readers and writers.
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