Irish Haiku

Irish Haiku features the literate and thoughtful prose of one of Ireland's critically aclaimed writers, the award winning essayist, Chris Arthur. Arthur's writing blends the intensely personal with the abstractly philosophical in his explorations of the meaning of what happens, what has happened, and what may happen. His writing has been favorably compared with figures as diverse as Hubert Butler, Joseph Campbell, Seamus Heaney, C.S. Lewis and V.S. Naipaul. As he has done in previous collections, Irish Nocturnes (1999) and Irish Willow (2002), in Irish Haiku Chris Arthur explores the world as it unfolds to his senses. As Arthur listens to, touches, watches, tastes, and thinks about his world we are invited to join him in his historical, cultural, natural, philosophical, scientific, sometimes humorous, and always intellectual ruminations.